Why are New Religious movements short-lived?
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- Created on: 14-09-19 14:24
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- Why are New Religious Movements short-lived?
- Social Changes
- Wallis
- Examples
- USA experienced rapid growth in NRMS in 1960s due to the Vietnam War
- 1980s - NRMs less popular due to the precarious job market
- USA experienced rapid growth in NRMS in 1960s due to the Vietnam War
- Death or Denomination
- Niebuhr
- Less commitment from the 2nd generation
- Younger members lack the fervour + commitment as their parents so lose interest
- Links to the 'Choice-Based nature of the Post-Modern World'
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- Younger members lack the fervour + commitment as their parents so lose interest
- The 'Protestant ethic' effect
- Asceticism - presents members with a conflict of interests
- Between spiritualism and materialism
- Asceticism - presents members with a conflict of interests
- Death of Charismatic leader
- Sect will breakdown or be replaced by a bureaucratic leader making it into a denomination
- Less commitment from the 2nd generation
- Niebuhr
- The Sectarian Cycle
- Stark Bainbridge - supports the Denomination of Sects
- Schism - tension between deprived and privileged members of a Church
- Further Schism - deprived members break away from the Church + form their own WR sect
- Denominationalism - Niebuhr's 3 reasons means the sect has less fervour and becomes more bureaucratic
- Establishment - Sect has become a denomination of the original wider Church from where it started
- Denominationalism - Niebuhr's 3 reasons means the sect has less fervour and becomes more bureaucratic
- Further Schism - deprived members break away from the Church + form their own WR sect
- Schism - tension between deprived and privileged members of a Church
- Stark Bainbridge - supports the Denomination of Sects
- Established Sects
- Wilson - agrees with Neibuhr's argument
- Conversionist sects - aim to convert large numbers of people - likely to grow into a formal denomination
- Globalisation - makes it possible to recruit from the Third World - Pentecostalist
- Adventist sects - to be saved must hold themselves from the corrupt world around them prevents them from compromising and becoming a denomination
- Globalisation - makes it harder for sects to keep away from the outside world
- Conversionist sects - aim to convert large numbers of people - likely to grow into a formal denomination
- Wilson - disagrees with Neibuhr's argument
- Established sects - Some sects have survived as they have been able to socialise their children into a high level of commitment- Pentecostalist
- Wilson - agrees with Neibuhr's argument
- Social Changes
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