What are issues with the old typologies to describe religious organisation?
1) too broad, prescriptive or inaccurate 2) distinction with sect and cult is confusing
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What is a New Religious Movement?
Movements created since WW2 - there have been quite a few after the 60s
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Which sociologists put forth alternative ideas about NRMs?
Barker (1989) & Wallis (1984)
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What is Barker's characteristics of NRMs?
1) Coverts 2) Membership 3) Leadership 4) Monopoly of truth 5) Identity 6) Antagonism and Suspicion
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What are Wallis' characteristics of NRMs?
1) World-rejecting groups 2) World-accomodating groups 3) World-affirming grou
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What are the characteristics of NAMs?
1) Appeal to self-spiritualism and detraditionalisation 2) focus on the mind/body/spirit which manifests as belief in tarot, crystals, alternative medicine, meditation, magic 3) part of a late modern society
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What are Bruce's features of NAMs?
1) Emphasis on self 2) Everything is connected 3) Self is the final authority 4) 'Global cafeteria' (pick and mix different spiritual practices) 5) Therapy
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What is a New Religious Movement?
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Movements created since WW2 - there have been quite a few after the 60s
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