The growth of new religious movements

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How does this link to Marxist ideas?
Relative deprivation and social change
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What is the theodicy of disprivilege?
Explaining disfortune through new religions
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What is the second stage of the sectarian cycle - Stark and Bainbridge?
Initial fervour
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What does Bruce see world-rejecting organisations as?
Youth counterculture
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How has the New Age grown?
Focuses on self-spiritualisation
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Give 2 reasons people join denominations
2nd generation, death of a leader
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What are 3 main causes for sect and cult growth?
Globalisation, modernisation and secularisation
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What is the first element of an alternative way of life?
Extended period between adolescence and adulthood
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What diminishes the initial fervour?
The protestant ethic
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