SOCIOLOGY: BELIEFS IN SOCIETY, RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS NRM'S AND FUNDAMENTALISM,
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- Created on: 08-11-21 12:28
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- Religious organisations 2
- Wallis: New Religious Movements -
- spread through films, shops, seminars, meetings, music and TV
- they are individualised, loose-knit, and make few demands on members
- world rejecting: clearly religious, clear notion of God, critical of outside world, members must cut off former life, 'brainwashing'
- world accommodating: neither accept or reject outside world, religious not worldly matters, want to restore spiritual purity
- world affirming: not highly organised, access to spiritual powers, optimistic and promise of success, tolerant of other beliefs, members = customers
- NRM's according to Stark and Bainbridge
- audience cult: the client is a passive consumer, they may read books/attend lectures but there is no necessary ongoing relationship
- e.g. scientology which began from a book
- client cult: relationship is similar to a doctor-patient one, cult is a service provider, they choose when how often and long they wish to receive the services.
- cult movement: one looks to fulfil the spiritual needs of customers. relationship more traditional, some expect more commitment than others.
- audience cult: the client is a passive consumer, they may read books/attend lectures but there is no necessary ongoing relationship
- Drane (1999)
- suggests new age movements have grown as a result of failure of science as a belief system. sense that science would solve the worlds problems but it created new ones
- fundamentalism
- seen as a consequence of post-mod society, religion is now 'watered down'
- all major world religions have seen fundamentalist actions to try and return religious roots.
- C21st examples
- increasing influence of NRM's in USA
- rise of Zionism
- Islamic fundamentalism in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghan
- characteristics
- interprets texts selectively
- intolerant of other religions
- patriarchal control and religion shapes behaviour
- Wallis: New Religious Movements -
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