ALEVEL SOCIO RELIGIOUS ORG
- Created by: SamChappers
- Created on: 03-05-22 17:48
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- Religious Organisations
- Churches
- Troeltsch 5 Features
- 1. Churches tend to have very large memberships and inclusive memberships
- 2. Churches tend to claim a monopoly on the truth
- 3. Churches have large, bureaucratic, hierarchical structures
- 4. Churches have professional, paid clergy
- 5. Churches tend to be closely tied to the sate
- Criticisms of the 'concept' of the church
- Bruce Religious organisations no longer fit the same definition they did in pre modern socieites
- Troeltsch 5 Features
- Denominations
- Niebuhr 6 Characteristic denomination
- 1) Like churches, denominations draw members from all sections of society: they are inclusive
- 2. Like churches, denominations have formal organisations and are hierarchically organised with a bureaucratic structure
- 3. There tend to be several denoms in a society, so they do not have universal appeal
- 4) Denoms do not claim a monopoly on truth
- 5. Unlike churches, a denomination does not identify with the state and believes in separation of church and state
- 6. Some denominations place more restrictions on their members
- Steve Bruce suggests that denoms have become more important in society with rise of religious pluaralism
- Niebuhr 6 Characteristic denomination
- Sects
- Troeltsch 8 features of Sects
- 1. Small memberships than church or denoms
- 2. The membership base of sects is drawn from lower social classes
- 3. Sects are not aligned with state
- 4. Reject norms and values of mainstream society. Sects are deatched and opposed to society
- 5. Sects demand a high level of commitment from their members
- 6. They don't have 'inclusive membership'. Membership has to be conscious and voluntary
- 7. Sects tend to possess a monopoly on truth
- 8. Sects have a charismatic leader
- Troeltsch 8 features of Sects
- Cults
- Examples of Cults: Scientology, Transcendental mediation
- Key features
- Cults tend to lack a fixed religious doctrine, and typically have very loose religious beliefs
- Tend to be more individualistic than other forms of religion
- Members tend to be more like customers: free to come and free to go
- Unlike sects lack strict rules. There is little commitment
- They are tolerant of other religions beliefs
- Churches
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