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Beliefs - Organisations & Movements - 5.6 Flashcards

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Types of Religious Organisations

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> Church
Denomination
Sect
Cults

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Church

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> Large, bureaucratic & closely linked with state, monopoly of truth

> Ideologically conservative & few demands on members e.g. Church of England
Legitimate

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Bruce - Criticisms of Definition of Church

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Lost monopoly & reduced to status of denominations, competing with everyone else

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Sect

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> Small, exclusive & increased commitment, hostile to wider society

> Feel they’ve monopoly of truth, recruit from working class with charismatic leadership

> e.g. Jehovah’s Witnesses, Deviant

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Denomination

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> Midway between Church & Sects, unexclusive, accepts society’s values, unlinked to state

> Minor restrictions, & tolerant of other religions

> e.g. Methodist

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Cults

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> Individualistic small loose structure, open membership & tolerant of other religions

> See members as customers e.g. Scientology

> Deviant

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Trend in New Religious Movements

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Increased due to decline of established churches, beliefs not declining but changing.

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Types of Religious Organisations (Key studies)

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> Wallis (3 Types of NRM)
Stark and Bainbridge (Sects)
Stark and Bainbridge (Cults)

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Wallis - 3 Types of New Religious Movements

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> World-Rejecting NRM
World-Accommodating NRM
World-Affirming NRM

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Examples of World Rejecting NRM

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Moonies, People’s Temple, Branch Davidians

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World Rejecting NRM - Wallis

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> Clear idea of God, hostile & radical, communal life style

> Cut off kinship ties & ascetic lifestyle

> Appeal to young, causing parents fear - see them as being captured.

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Examples of World-Accommodating NRM

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Neo-Pentecostals or Subud

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World-Accommodating NRM - Wallis

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> Breakaway from churches, feel religion has lost its lost purity, don’t accept/reject world

> Resembles dominations, politically conservative

> Focus on religious rather than worldly matters

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Examples of World-Affirming NRM

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Scientology, Transcendental Meditation & Human Potential

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World-Affirming NRM - Wallis

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> Lack normal religious features accept world, followers customers rather than members.

> Give them access to spiritual powers & special knowledge

> Promise success in individual goals

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General Criticisms of Wallis

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Ignores diversity of beliefs within NRM

> Most NRM don’t fit in categories e.g. mix traits

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Stark & Bainbrisge - Criticisms of Wallis

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Religious organisations should only be distinguished by tension between the group and wider society.

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Two Organisations Stark & Bainbridge feel conflict with wider society

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> Sects & Cults

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Stark & Bainbridge - Sects

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> Due to existing groups splitting e.g. church due to disagreements over doctrine

> Increased tension with outside world & offer supernatural/other worldly benefits

> People suffering with economic /ethical deprivation

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Stark & Bainbridge - Cults

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New religions e.g Scientology or imported e.g. Transcendental Meditation offering this worldly benefits to people suffering health deprivation

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Stark & Bainbridge - 3 Types of Cult

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> Audience Cults
Client Cults
Cultic Movements

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Audience Cults & S&B

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> Unorganised with little commitment/interaction participate through media

> e.g. Astrology Cults

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Client Cults - Stark & Bainbridge

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Offer services to customers enhancing life, promising personal fulfilment with therapies e.g. Scientology

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Cultic Movements

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> Organised & exclusive, needed increased levels of commitment, claims to meet all religious needs

> Offer full spiritual package including.answers to core existential questions e.g. Heaven’s Gate

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General Criticisms of Stark & Bainbridge

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> Unclear involvement members need to have

> e.g. groups Stark & Bainbridge use don’t fit neatly into categories

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Reasons for Growth of Religious Movements

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> Marginality
Relative deprivation
Anomie & Social Change

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Reasons for Growth of Religious Movements (Key Studies)

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> Weber (Marginality)
Stark & Bainbridge (Marginality)

> Stark & Bainbridge (Relative deprivation , Spirituality & Compensators)
Barker (Relative Deprivation)

> Wilson (Anomie & Social Change)
Bruce (Anomie & Social Change)

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Weber - Marginality

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> Fall of organised religion leaves a gap in market, sects arise in groups marginal in society.

> Give theodicy of deprivilege for lack of status e.g. recruit from marginalised working class

> e.g. Black Muslims recruited among oppressed blacks in US, due to inequality

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Stark & Bainbridge - Marginality

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> World rejecting NRMs give access to close-knit groups in the same position

> Offer sense of security, clear values & reward in heaven.

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Stark & Bainbridge - Relative Deprivation & Spirituality

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> Middle class feel spiritually deprived compared to others in today’s materialistic & consumerist world - lacks emotional warmth

> Sects give a sense of community

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Stark & Bainbridge - Relative Deprivation & Compensators

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> Relative Deprivation middle class people form/join sects as a response to feeling spiritually deprived

> People join sects for a sense of community

> The relatively deprived break away from churches to form sects

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Barker - Relative Deprivation

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> Middle class children feel neglected by career focused parents & suffer relative deprivation, NRM’s give an alternative family

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Anomie & Social Change - Wilson

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> Rapid social change leads to anomie, undermines traditional values

> NRMs give solution through sense of certainty, with clearly defined belief systems

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Anomie & Social Change - Bruce

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> Increased social change due to secularisation, means people are less attracted to the traditional churches as they are strict & demanding

> People join sects and cults with less sacrifices

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Reasons for Growth of NRM’s (Key Studies )

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> Wallis (Reasons for increased World Rejecting NRMs)
Bruce (Reasons for increasing World Rejecting and World Accomodating NRMs)

> Wallis (Practical & Pragmatic Reasons)
Heelas (Practical & Pragmatic Reasons)

> Wallis (Status Frustration)
Barker (Status Frustration)

> Baudrillard (Globalisation & Media)
Giddens (Secularisation)

> Lyotard & Baumann (Postmodernity)

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Wallis - Reasons for Growth of World-Rejecting NRM’s

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> Social change from 60’s gave young freedom, letting idealistic counter culture develop

> Increase of radical political movements offered alternative ideas about future

> So World Rejecting NRM gave them an idealistic way of life

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Bruce - Reasons for Growth of World-Rejecting NRM’s

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> Failure of counter-culture to change world, led to discouraged youth turning to religion instead

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Bruce - Reasons for Growth of World-Affirming NRM’s

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> Increased due to modernity, brings rationalisation of work, no longer source of identity

> Give source of identity & techniques promising success in the world

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Wallis - Practical & Pragmatic Reasons

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> Teach techniques inspiring people to achieve emotionally & spiritually

> Unlocking spiritual power within.

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Heelas - Practical & Pragmatic Reasons

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> Appeal to rich who feel gap in their lives

> NRMs fills gaps in spirituality & the rich have the wealth to pay for services

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Wallis - Status Frustration

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> Marginality leads to status frustration, these movements appeal to the youth as NRMs provide support with identity & status

> Separate from school /family, helping overcome status frustration

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Barker - Status Frustration

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> Young people lack financial commitments of mortgage/rent & have more time outside work/family

> So increased freedom for involvement in NRMS

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Baudrillard - Globalisation & Media

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> Now increased access to new belief systems in the world in a media-saturated society

> Leads to people joining NRM’s to increase public profile & visibility and attract more members.

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Giddens - Secularisation

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> Traditional religions are watered-down beliefs to fit in with an increasing secular world.

> But people use NRM’s to get comfort & community that big religions don’t offer.

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Postmodernism - Lyotard & Baumann

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> Loss of faith in metanarratives, so created gaps with increased conflicting beliefs

> People  experience a crisis of meaning
as traditional forms of identity (class etc) are  fragmented

> NRM’s fill gaps for a sense of identity retaining control & normality.

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Dynamics of Sects & NRM (KS)

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> Niebuhr (Denomination of Death)

> Stark & Bainbridge (Sectarian Cycle)

> Wilson’s (3 Established Sects)

> Heelas (Growth of New Age) (Client Cults)
Heelas (Growth of New Age) (Self Spirituality, De-Traditonalisation)
Heelas (Trends Beyond Common Themes
Heelas (4 Ways New Age & Modernity is linked)

> Drane (Postmodernity & New Age)
Bruce (Postmodernity & New Age)

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Niebuhr - Denomination or Death

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> Sects are world rejecting and exists due to a split from the church

> Within a generation they die out or compromise with world

> They abandon their extreme ideas & become denomination.

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Why are Sects short-lived?

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> Problems maintaining commitment
Loss of Leader
Changing Circumstances
Postmodernism

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Why are Sects short-lived? (Key studies)

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> Barker (Problems Maintaining Commitment)

> Niebuhr (Problems Maintaining Commitment)

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Barker (Problems Maintaining Commitment)

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People can’t cope with strict discipline & rules extreme commitments needed, so puts people off

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Niebuhr (Problems Maintaining Commitment)

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> Enthusiasm dies after 1st generation which leads to death of the sect

> Or they adapt to be less of protest movement/tolerant of mainstream society.

> e.g. cool down & become like denomination.

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Loss of Leader - Why are Sects short-lived?

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> Charismatic leader, attracted people to join in the first place, so group collapses without central figure

> e.g. death/imprisonment.

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Criticisms of Loss of Leader

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> Can be increasingly eager e.g. if leader’s imprisoned.

> The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) continued after the arrest arrest of Warren Jeffs

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Changing Circumstances - Why are Sects short-lived?

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> Personal reasons people joined slowly disappear and they may wish for a normal life

> The second generation didn’t feel the initial reasons for joining so it is likely that they will leave

> Sects will either die/ become denomination

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Postmodernism - Why are Sects short-lived?

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> Fragmentation of belief means increased choice.

> People try different sects with no commitment e.g. spiritual shopping.

> Increased tolerance of beliefs don’t last due to changing consumer tastes.

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5 Stages of Stark and Bainbridge - Sectarian Cycle

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  1. Schism
  2. Initial Fervour
  3. Denominationalism
  4. Establishment
  5. Further Schism
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Schism - Stark & Bainbridge - Sectarian Cycle

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Tensions develop between the needs of the deprived and privileged members of church, the deprived leave to found a world-rejecting sect

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Initial Fervour - Stark & Bainbridge - Sectarian Cycle

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e.g. Charismatic leadership & tension between the sect’s beliefs & wider society

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Denominationalism - Stark & Bainbridge - Sectarian Cycle

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‘Protestant ethic’ effect & cooling down of the second generation so initial fervour disappears

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Establishment - Stark & Bainbridge - Sectarian Cycle

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Sect becomes world-accepting - no tension with wider society

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Further Schism - Stark & Bainbridge - Sectarian Cycle

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Zealous & less privileged members break away & found new sect true to original message

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Wilson (Established Sects) Criticisms of Stark & Bainbridge - Sectarian Cycle

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Patterns not the same for all sects, depends on the answer to the question ‘’what shall we do to be saved?”

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Wilson’s 3 Established Sects

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> Conversionist
Established
Advent

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Conversionist - Wilson’s 3 Established Sects

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e.g. evangelicals aim to convert lots of people and become increased larger formal denominations

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Adventist - Wilson’s 3 Established Sects

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> e.g. Jehovah’s Witnesses awaiting second coming of christ

> To be saved, must be separate from corrupt world

> Does not compromise with the world and therefore does not become a denomination.

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Established - Wilson’s 3 Established Sects

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Survive for many generations, but don’t become denomination

e.g. Amish and Mormons

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Heelas - Growth of New Age (Client Cults)

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> Estimated to cover 2000 activities & 140 000 practitioners in the UK

> Very loosely organised

> Very diverse - beliefs include UFOs, astrology, meditation etc.

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Heelas - Growth of New Age

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𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳-𝗦𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆
> Move away from traditional established churches to find spirituality inside selves

𝗗𝗲-𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
> Rejects spiritual authority of traditional sources
> e.g. priests, value personal experience & can find truth in ourselves

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Heelas - Trends Beyond Common Themes

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> Most New Age offer both World Affirming aspects helping people succeed

> Rejects external traditional sources allowing individuals to discover enlightenment in their inner world

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Drane - Postmodernity & New Age

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> Loss of faiths in scientists who promise progress but instead have given us global warming

> Disappointed with churches’ failure to meet spiritual needs

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Bruce - Postmodernity & New Age

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> Individualism in late modernity ‘expressive professions’ focused on human potential

> e.g. artists/social workers, who the New Age most appeals to

> Less demanding version of traditional eastern religions e.g. Buddhism.

> New Age Self Spirituality reflecting increasing consumerism

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Heelas - 4 Ways the New Age & Modernity are linked

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> Source of Identity
Consumer Culture
Rapid Social Change
Decline of Organised Religion

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Source of Identity - Heelas - 4 Ways New Age & Modernity are linked

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> People with different roles e.g. work, home, friends with no overlap lead to a fragmented identity.

> New Age beliefs offer an authentic identity.

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Consumer Culture - Heelas - 4 Ways New Age & Modernity are linked

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> Creates dissatisfaction due to not delivering perfection promised e.g. advertising

> New Age offers alternative way to achieve perfection.

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Rapid Social Change - Heelas - 4 Ways New Age & Modernity are linked

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Disrupts established norms & values, leading to anomie, New Age gives sense of certainty & truth.

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Decline of Organised Religion - Heelas - 4 Ways New Age & Modernity are linked

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> Modernity means secularisation and the decline of organised religion - New Age beliefs offer an alternative

> e.g. New Age strongest with low church-attendance e.g. California

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