Chapter 8- Religion and Deviance Flashcards
(24 cards)
Beliefs
Anything you personally think is true
Belief systems
single beliefs are combined with other interrelated beliefs into organized sets, the ideologies of specific political parties, and the knowledge contained in particular disciplines of science, are all belief systems that are shared among large groups of people
Religion as Deviance
acts of deviance that occur within religious groups, or religious groups themselves being considered deviant in their entirety
Religion as a social typer of deviance
religious belief systems or the way those belief systems are applied dictate to us who should be considered deviant and what the consequences should/would be.
Ecclesias
refer to state religions, a specific religious belief system is adopted at a governmental level and becomes a nation’s official religion
Churches
Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity
Denominations
Subdivisions of the churches (catholicism)
Sects
Smaller religious groups that have usually broken away from larger churches at some point in history.(amish and hutterites)
Cults
smaller than sects
Tension between sects and the rest of society
1) magnitiude of the differences between the sect and society
2) the level of antagonism that the sect feels for society
3) the extent to which the sect separates itself from the larger world
Deviancy Amplification
When a deviant group becomes even more deviant as a response to hostilities or social control efforts from outsiders, it is referred to as deviancy amplification
Anti Cult Movement
parents whose hippie children had joined small new religious groups that were part of the broader countercultural movement, concerned about the way their children had severed ties with their families and fearful that their children would be brainwashed and led into deviant behaviours parents coalesced into support groups
cult awareness groups
modern day anti cult movements
counter cult movement
noticeably older than the anti cult movement, this movement is overwehlmingly opposed to religious freedom in total. conservative christians.
sect filters
used in germany by the government to weed out scientologists when hiring or awarding contracts
First governmental barrier-Authoritarian measures to control religious beliefs
Like China, communism is only allowed, not religious beliefs
Second barrier to religious beliefs-Hostility towards non approved religious groups
Iraq under saddam hussien
third barrier-state of neglect of the problem of discrimination against non approved religions
India, laws may exist to prohibit discrimination, but they are not enforced
fourth barrier- discriminatory legislation or policies disadvantaging certain religions
israel and russia, after being atheist for 70 years, they had government choose what religions were cults and what werent
fifth barrier, stigmatization of certain religions by wrongfully associating them with dangerous cults or sects
germany france and belgium
New religious movements
word used by academics instead of cults in some cases
Joan of Arc
was one of the 40,000 to 100,000 convicted witches burned at the stake
Residential Schooling
aboriginal children removed from homes and families and taken to residential boarding schools wehere they would be given an education, not only in reading, writing, and arithmetic, but also in christianity and learning how to act “white”
Child savers movement
christian church movement, especially interested in childrens rights
