Typology 1

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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
    • 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

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