New Religious Movements (NRMs)

New Religious Movements (NRMs)

Types of NRMs:

World rejecting NRMs - critical of wider society, a clear notion of God, members must break with their former life and have restricted contact with the outside world. 

• The People's Temple 
• Branch Davidians 

World Accommodating NRMs - are often breakaways from existing churches, neither accept nor reject the world and focus on religious rather than worldly matters. 

• Neo-pentecostalists
• Subud 

World Affirming NRMs - often lack some of the conventional…