key terms

Question 1

typology

Answer 1

-classification of things into types e.g types of religious organisaitonas

Question 2

ideal types

Answer 2

-features that apply to majority of things in that category

Question 3

world rejecting groups

Answer 3

-on opposition and reject dominant norms and values

Question 4

world accomodating groups

Answer 4

-accpet dominant norms and values like others in society

Question 5

world affirming groups

Answer 5

-accpets society as it is and offers members opporutnity for self improvemnt within it

Question 6

sect

Answer 6

-reject values of mainstream society and demand total comitment closed to outisders and hv charismatic leaders

Question 7

cult

Answer 7

-loose knit groups open to all individualis abd dont require complete comitment from memebrs

Question 8

audience cults

Answer 8

provide little to memebers apart from info and often spread via media e.g new age ideas

Question 9

client cults

Answer 9

-organisation and offer paid services and members e.g spiritualism

Question 10

cult movements

Answer 10

-organised involve range of activites and comitment e.g scientology

Question 10

new age groups

Answer 10

-combine religous and cult traditions focus on mind body, spirit

Question 10

new religous movements

Answer 10

emerged since end of WW2

Question 11

theodicy of disprivilege

Answer 11

-religious exp for social inequality

Question 12

anomie

Answer 12

normlessness and confusion over norms

Question 13

conversionist sects

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-those likely to develop into a denomination

Question 14

introversionist sects

Answer 14

withdraw selves from the rest of the world

Question 15

adventist or revolutionary sects

Answer 15

believe theres going to be dramatic catastriphic end of the world

Question 16

millenarianism

Answer 16

-belief that catastrophic change will happen to the world and make it better