New Religious Movement (NRM)

Question 1

What is world affirming movement?

Answer 1

Most are cults
Do not tolerate other religions
-attempt to be optimistic
-enhance the livers of followers.
-attract for ambitious
-accept world in current state
-do not seek societal change
-members seen s clergy

Question 2

What is world accommodating movement?

Answer 2

Usually demonstration across mainstream churches
-not happy with current state of world wish to make most of situation to achieve salvation.
-movements on improving lives of followers while tills conforming to operate.
- attract people in societal change.
Example pentalcostalism

Question 3

What is world rejecting movements?

Answer 3

Majority are sects
-demeaned social change
-do not accept current state of the world
-members leave old olives behind and create new identities.
-understanding ogre god
Example monies there are unification of church.

Question 4

What is evaluation of new religious movements

Answer 4

Niebuhr- believes that sects are short lived that they rarely last longer than a generation or different reasons.
-movement loses momentum once leader dies
-children’s of the sects members do not have same intensity of beliefs as parents a it dies in second generation.
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Question 5

What are the three reasons growth of NRM

Answer 5

Marginalisation- max wevber claimed nrm tend to attract individuals who do not belong to majority of communities in religion. Tend to have theodicies of disprivilledge .

Relative deprivation - barker- tend of young middle class people attracted to nrm such as monies. Middle class feel restricted and emotionally deprived suffer from relative deprivation.

Social change- Wilson- rapid social change individuals are feel sense of anomie, confusion