Religious Organizations - Churches
- Created by: HLOldham
- Created on: 03-04-16 13:02
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- Churches
- Ernst Troeltsch 1931
- The first to distinguish between different religious organisations
- Influenced by Weber
- Uses church to refer to a large organisation
- A church may try to be universal - embrace all members of society
- A church usually 'stabilizes and determines political order'
- Churches are sometimes closely related to the state
- Churches are formal organizations with a hierarchy of professional, paid officials
- The first to distinguish between different religious organisations
- Steve Bruce 1996
- Questions the usefulness of the definition of the church that Troeltsch comes up with
- Argues the concept og a church is primarily useful in describing pre-modern Christian societies
- 'When a population becomes divided between a number of organizations, that fragmentation undermines the conditions for the church form'
- A variety of organizations, which call themselves churches or which could be seen as churches, do not conform to the characteristics outlined by Troeltsch
- Ernst Troeltsch 1931
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