Reasoning for decline in TRM
- Created by: Marcushamer97
- Created on: 28-02-17 22:50
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- Why have traditional religious organisations lost support in past 30 years?
- WEBER – Sects tend to arise in groups who are marginal to society. Such groups may feel they are dis-privileged – not receiving their economic rewards or social status. Sects offer a solution to this through theodicy of dis-privilege – religious explanation of their suffering.
- RELATIVE DEPRIVATION – Subjective sense of being deprived. Possible for someone who is in a privileged position to feel like they are deprived or disadvantaged in some way. Although m/c people are materially well off, they may feel they are spiritually deprived, especially in today’s materialistic, consumeristic world. It is the relatively deprived who break away from churches to form sects.
- SOCIAL CHANGE – Periods of rapid change disrupts and undermines established norms and values, producing anomie or normlessness. In response, those who are most affected by the disruption may turn to sects as a solution
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