NRM's and Religious Organisations
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- NRMS's and Religious Organisations
- Key Terms
- CHURCH - Institutional religion known as the main religion of a society associated with the state
- SECT - Small, exclusive group with a charismatic leader appealing often to the poor
- DENOMINATION - A splinter group from the established church religion
- CULT - Least organised, informal, highly individualistic, loose knit, small group with no defined beliefs
- Want to move forward not backwards, e.g. Scientology
- Wallis - 3 types of NRMS
- World Affirming NRM's - Offer followers access to spiritual powers and accept the world as it is
- Promise followers success in mainstream goals, non-exclusive and tolerant of other religions
- E.g. Church of Scientology
- More likely to attract middle class, married as they seek spirituality in a rational world
- World Accomadating NRM's - Breakaways from mainstream religious groups
- Focus on religion rather than worldly matters, e.g. Neo Pentecostalists
- World Rejecting NRM's - Critical of the outside world and seek radical change
- Members make a sharp break from former life, Conservative views
- E.g. Moonies and Peoples Temple
- Attract young people as they have no adult commitments
- Criticisms - Ignore diversity within NRM's as many wouldn't just be one type
- World Affirming NRM's - Offer followers access to spiritual powers and accept the world as it is
- Why have NRM's grown?
- Marginality - Sects tend to appeal to the oppressed and poor
- WEBER - Sects offer a solution to the disprivileged,they offer an justification for their suffering
- Relative Deprivation - M/C feel spiritually deprived but materially well off
- World Rejecting NRM's - Appeal to W/C
- World Affirming/Acommodating - Appeal to M/C, bring further success
- Social Change -WILSON - periods of rapid social change produces anomie and normlessness and sects are the solution
- BRUCE - Sects grow as a response to modernisation and secularisation
- Pragmatic Moves - practical reasons, happier life
- Spiritual void - science not answering questions
- Marginality - Sects tend to appeal to the oppressed and poor
- Do sects last?
- NEIBUHR - Secs are short-lived and that within a generation they often die out or compromise with the world
- Reason 1: The second generation - People born into sects don't have the same commitment their parents had
- Reason 2: The Protestant Ethic - Compromise with the world due to their work and saving ethic
- Reason 3: Death of the leader - Remain on charismatic leaders so when they die it collapses
- STARK and BAINBRIDGE- The Sectarian Cycle stating sects go through a constant cycle
- 1st Stage - Schism - Break away from the church due to tension
- 2nd Stage - Initial Fervour - Charismatic leader creates tension with sect and society
- 3rd Stage - Denominationalism - Protestant Ethic effect
- 4th Stage. - Establishment - Sect becomes world accepting
- 5th Stage - Further Schism - New sects from due to tension between classes
- WILSON - Sects survival depends on what they think 'saves them' and many have lasted through the years
- NEIBUHR - Secs are short-lived and that within a generation they often die out or compromise with the world
- Key Terms
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