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CHURCH

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Large formal organisation run by a hierarchy of professionals

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SECT

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Small exclusive group
Charismatic leader
Hostile to wider society

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DENOMINATION

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Develop from broken sect
Smaller than a church
Few minor restrictions

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CULT

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Power to the individual
No set of beliefs
Live normal life: no restrictions

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What are the three types of cults?

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Stark and bainbridge;
Audience cult- UFO
Client cult- tarrot card reading
Cult movement- moonies

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World rejecting: New right movement

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Eg: Moonies, WBC, Peoples temple
Critical of outside world
Break from former life 
Live together: brainwashing
Have conservative moral codes (sex)
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World accommodating: New right movement

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Seek to restore religious purity
Focus on religion not worldly matters
Nor accept nor reject
Eg, SUBUD

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World affirming- new right movement

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Not highly organised
Optimistic
Special knowledge: eg scientology
Spiritual/supernatural powers

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Fundamentalism

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Extremely devout type of religious beliefs
Threatened by modern society and globalisation
Us v Them
Aggression
Patriarchy
Take sacred texts word for word

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GIDDENS AND POSTMODERNITY

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Trend towards liberalism is undermining religion and sacred texts( nuclear family, sexuality, gender)

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BRUCE: 2 types of fundamentalism

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In the west: change laws by restoring true religion

Third world: resist states attempt to sideline religious groups

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Globalisation

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Ideology 
Technology 
Transport 
Attacks 
Funding
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Types of fundamentalists

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Al Qaeda 
ISIS 
Shamima Begum 
Anders breivik 
westbro baptist church
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New atheism

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Social and political movement in favour of atheism and secularisation
Largest growing demographic in the UK

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The God Delusion.

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Richard Dawkins; 
Immoral 
Creates division 
Threat to human progress 
Tries to implement science into religion
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GOD IS NOT GREAT

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Hitchens 
Violent 
Intolerant 
Irrational 
Hostile 
Contemptous for women  
Coercive for children
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Postmodernism

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Greater choice: different types of religion and practices
Spiritual choices that fit our identity and our version of the truth
Baudrillard: act of consumption

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Believing without belonging

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Grace Davies
Religion is changing not declining
Vicarious religion
Private and personal religion

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Spiritual shopper

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Cultural amnesia
DIY Beliefs

Pilgrims
Converts

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