Religion - Religious Organizations

Question 1

LBUSIWHM

Answer 1

large 
born into it
upper class
state
ideologically conservative
withdrawal
hierarchy
monopoly of truth

Question 2

Who identified denominations under Troeltsch’s scheme, and what LBUSIWHM do they have?

Answer 2

Neibhur, L, B,H, I, W

Question 3

Bruce’s problems with Troeltsch’s church

Answer 3

1. Large X - Brierly says englad has 1mil and catholic has 800k
2. no M
3. not always I, therefore not always S. (Roman Catholic Church opposed communism in L america)

Question 4

Sects by Troeltsch and Roy Wallis

Answer 4

T = nothin but M

W= “deviant groups that claim to be uniquely legitimate”

Question 5

Roy Wallis’s categorization of churches

Answer 5

Uniquely legitimate versus pluralistically legitimate

respectable versus deviant

Question 6

Alan Aldridge on sects and deniminations

Answer 6

Differs with context for example Mormons in the US versus in Britain

Question 7

Cults: who says what

Answer 7

Bruce
highly Individualistic expression
personal experience and interpretations
lacks a Fixed Doctrine

Question 8

Bruce on sects

Answer 8

sects Are a result of breaking from larger churches due to social conflicts

Question 9

Example of Sects

Answer 9

Peoples temple of America in 1970 when Jim Jones created a commune Jonestown which practice Marxist ideology

the members died after taking Cyanide

Question 10

Wallis’s world rejecting movements

Answer 10

Definite concept of God
Critical of the outside world
Seek change
Sharp break from conventional life

Question 11

World accommodating new religious movements

Answer 11

They are offshoots or branches of existing churches for example Neo Pentecostalists

Concerned with religious questions

Seek to restore spiritual purity

Question 12

World affirming new religious movements

Answer 12

No church God for collective ritual

focuses on spiritual powers and personal achievement

Little control over members

Question 13

Critique Wallis (3)

Answer 13

Beckford argues that the categories are difficult to apply our believes or the individual out looks more important

There may be a diversity of veiws within a sept or cult

Stark & Bainbridge against typology

Question 14

Stark and Bainbridge on cults and sects

Answer 14

They can only be measured by the degree of conflict between them and wider society

Question 15

Max Weber on the growth of Colts

Answer 15

Marginal groups in society seek a theodicy of disprivilege

That is a religious justification for their dis privilege

Question 16

Relative deprivation who says what

Answer 16

Wallis says that despite middle-class backgrounds few more spiritually deprived

Stark agrees and believes that the relatively deprived are likely to break away

Maguire says relative deprivation makes conditions necessary for cults

Question 17

Social change and the growth of SECTS

Answer 17

Bryan Wilson-response to Rapids social change example the thought is him as a response of the working class to chaos of industrialization

Agreed by Andrew Dawson

Question 18

Steve Bruce on the growth of CULTS

Answer 18

secularization equals weak religion equals consideration of alternatives

When people dislike commitment CULTS become more popular

Question 19

Dawson and the supply side of new religious movements

Answer 19

Movements should effectively use the Internet or other recruitment methods

Must draw upon prevailing political rhetoric

Present themselves positively in society