New religious movements
- Created by: annagaskell
- Created on: 19-02-19 16:33
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- New religious movements
- spiritual groups emerged in relatively modern times, more recent than established religions eg/ christianity
- arrived in the 1960'ssince ww2, globalisation and social revolution. mainly categorised as sects/ cults
- roy wallis -internal conception -external conception how it sees society
- world-rejecting movements
- hostile towards society and receive hostility
- control and discipline over members, sharp break from conventional life
- millenarian beliefs
- belief in an apocalyptic end and replacement with perfect world order
- sects
- world-affirming movements
- accept the world as it is
- fully optimistic and promise followers reward in terms of mainstream goals
- claim special knowledge and techniques to unlock members power
- cults
- world accommodating movements
- neither accept or reject society
- believe the world has lost its spirituality aim to restore spiritual purity of religion
- live in the world but not of the world
- denominations
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