a generalisation used to classify things into groups of types according to their characteristics, which do not necessarily apply in every real world example.
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Ideal types
a model of ‘pure types’ that contain the essential features of a religious organisation, but which don’t exist in the real world – they provide a measuring rod for a researcher to compare.
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Religious pluralism
– a situation where there are a variety of different religion, different groups within a faith, and a range of beliefs of all kinds, with no one-belief system ruling.
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Charismatic leader
a person with a powerful, imposing ‘magnetic’ personality that gives them power over other groups.
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Theodicy of the disprivilege
a religious explanation and justification provided by sects for the social marginalisation of believers, often used as a test of faith.
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Millenarian beliefs
some form of extra-worldly or supernatural intervention will change the world rapidly and suddenly, in what ALDRIDGE calls imminent apocalyptic collapse of the existing world
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a model of ‘pure types’ that contain the essential features of a religious organisation, but which don’t exist in the real world – they provide a measuring rod for a researcher to compare.
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Ideal types
Card 3
Front
– a situation where there are a variety of different religion, different groups within a faith, and a range of beliefs of all kinds, with no one-belief system ruling.
Back
Card 4
Front
a person with a powerful, imposing ‘magnetic’ personality that gives them power over other groups.
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Card 5
Front
a religious explanation and justification provided by sects for the social marginalisation of believers, often used as a test of faith.
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