Typology 1
- Created by: maddieecarr
- Created on: 05-06-22 10:31
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- Typology 1
- Sect
- Troeltsch
- Characteristic
- Small membership
- Reject society
- Exclusive membership
- Majority working class/marginalised group membership
- Charismatic leader
- Monopoly on religious truth
- Types of sect:
- Adventist: must separate from society in order to obtain paradise
- Conversionist:want to recruit many members
- Examples
- The People’s Temple
- Beach Davidians
- Denomination
- Niebuhr
- Characteristic
- Fairly large membership (10k-100k)
- Mixed class membership
- No relationship with state
- No monopoly on truth
- No formal hierarchy
- Freedom of members
- Inclusive membership
- Examples
- Jehovah’s witnesses
- Latter Day Saints
- Methodist
- Pentecostal
- Cult
- Characteristic
- Loose group
- No fixed doctrine but based around a common theme
- Individualistic
- Tolerating of other beliefs
- Untitled
- Example: Scientology
- Characteristic
- Church
- Troeltsch
- Characteristic
- Large membership
- Inclusive membership
- Freedom of members
- Accepting of society
- Middle/upper class members are majority
- Hierarchy is formal and paid
- Has a relationship with the state
- Monopoly on religious truth
- Examples
- Catholicism and Protestantism
- Islam
- Judaism
- Buddhism
- Sect
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