Types Of Religious Organisations Flashcards
What’s a church? (3)
Universalistic
Large organisations
Claim to hold the truth
Who distinguished the difference between a church and a sect.
Troeltsch
What’s a sect? (3)
Small
Exclusive
Hostile to wider society
Who distinguished the difference a denomination and a sect?
Niebuhr
What’s a denomination? 3
Less exclusive than a sect
Don’t appeal to the whole of society
Not linked to a state
What’s a cult 3
Individualistic
Small
Loose - knit
Who categorised NRM’s into 3 categories?
WALLIS
What’s were the three NRM’s?
World rejecting
World affirming
World accommodating
Give an example of a world rejecting NRM
MANSION FAMILY
ISIS
Give an example of a world accommodating NRM
Neo-Pentecostalism
Give an example of a world affirming NRM
Scientology
Who identifies that sects and cults are in conflict with wider society?
Stark and bainbridge
How does marginalisation contribute to the groth of NRM’s and according to who?
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