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6. Troeltsch distinguishes between what?

  • Sect and Church
  • Denomination and Church
  • Cults and Church
  • Denomination and Sect

7. What is NOT a characteristic of a cult?

  • They are led by a priest
  • Often world-affirming
  • Cults are individualistic

8. Who identifies two features of religious organisations?

  • Wallis
  • Baumann
  • Bruce
  • Yingers

9. Niebuhr distinguishes between what?

  • Cult and Denomination
  • Denomination and Sect
  • Church and Denomination

10. Who categorises the NRMs?

  • Weber
  • Wallis
  • Bruce

11. Which claim the monopoly of truth?

  • Cults and Sects
  • Churches and Sect
  • Denominations and Cults

12. What is a feature of world affiriming NRMs?

  • Claims to unlock peoples hidden potential both spiritual and mental
  • Only look to restore purity in religion

13. In what year have there been an expansion of New Religious Organisations?

  • 1960s
  • 1930s
  • 1990s

14. Who sees religious organisations moving through a cycle?

  • Stark and Bainbridge
  • Voas and Crockett
  • Norris and Inglehart

15. What is NOT a characteristic of a denomination?

  • They are very demanding
  • They are tolerant of other religion
  • They do not claim to hold the absolute truth

16. Which are?

  • How they see themselves and how society sees them?
  • How the media see them and how education sees them?