The growth of nrm's and nam's
- Created by: annagaskell
- Created on: 20-02-19 17:24
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- Growth of sects and cults (NRM's and NAM's)
- marginalisation
- Weber
- There are people who are marginalised, pushed to the edges of society (unemployed, homeless)
- Theodicy of disprivaledge
- justification/ explanation for suffering and prmosie for heavenly reward
- turns deprivation into a test of faith, compensation
- relative deprivation
- a subjective sense of being without something
- economic/status- lower class lack job satisfaction, alternative way of gaining status
- organismic
- healing for those with physical/ mental isses
- psychic deprivation
- spiritual alternative
- media saturation
- mass info. dominated by media
- religions can advertise
- DIY cocktail of beliefs
- madaline bunting
- spiritual shoppers in spiritual supermarket
- identity loss
- traditional forms of identity are fragmented- crisis of meaning
- need religion in world of hybrid identities
- Danielle herview lerger- people are pilgrims or converts
- pilgrims
- journey of self discovery (cult)
- converts
- strong sense of belonging (sect)
- pilgrims
- secularisation
- traditional religion loosing its influence
- disenchantment of the world (weber)
- sects and cults watered down beliefs
- sects , sense of community (Giddens)
- cults- spiritual dimension (bruce)
- social change
- periods of alientation to norms and values
- normlessness - durkihiem
- sects0 firm beliefs, sense of mission
- cults- spiritual guidance/ fulfilment
- marginalisation
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