New Religious Movements
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- Created on: 29-04-16 09:22
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- New Religious Movements
- Wallis & Bruce
- Groups & movements that have emerged from WW2 & have come to prominence in Western society
- Wallis
- Categorised by relationship to the outside world
- Rejecting
- Charismatic leader
- Critical of outside world
- Monopoly on the truth
- Exclusive membership
- Vary in size
- Eg. Moonies, People's Temple
- Accommodating
- Usually offshoots
- Just focus on religion don't try to improve world/life
- Don't accept or reject the world
- Affirming
- Accept the world as it is.
- Salvation is seen as a personal achievement & a solution to personal problems
- Seek a wide membership
- Try to sell services
- Followers carry on normal lives except at training
- Members not normally excluded
- Reasons for growth
- Appeal to M/C U/C who wish to recapture their inner selves they also have the money
- Bird. Aff's Provide ways to work on themselves and bring personal growth
- Weber argued that we have become disenchanted w/ the world
- Bird. Aff's provide a spiritual component
- There is a lot of pressure to be successful so people like Aff's
- Bird. Aff's provide techniques to become successful
- Rej's offer a theodicy of dis-privilege & a better life after death
- Relative Deprivation: Something spiritual/emotional is missing
- Glock & Stark types of relative deprivation
- Social Deprivation: lack of power/status
- Organismic Deprivation: physical/mental problems
- Ethical Deprivation: the world is in moral decline
- Psychic Deprivation: Seek spiritual fulfilment
- Glock & Stark types of relative deprivation
- Status Frustration
- Appeal to M/C U/C who wish to recapture their inner selves they also have the money
- Wallis & Bruce
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