Sects And Cults

Question 1

Weber

Answer 1

Sects arise in groups who feel marginalised and disprivileged. Sects offer a theodicy of disprivilige.

Question 2

Theodicy of disprivelege

Answer 2

A religious explanation and justification for their suffering and disadvantage.

Question 3

Nation of Islam

Answer 3

Recruit members among disadvantaged blacks in the USA

Question 4

Wilson

Answer 4

Periods of rapid change undermine established norms and value, producing ‘anomie’ (normlessness). Those who are most disrupted may turn to sects as a solution.

Question 5

Anomie

Answer 5

Normlessness

Question 6

Industrial revolution

Answer 6

Led to the birth of the Methodist church

Question 7

The Methodist church

Answer 7

This happened at a time of great change with many people now living in poverty.

Question 8

Stark and Bainbridge

Answer 8

It is the relatively deprived who break away from churches to form sects.

Question 9

Relatively deprived

Answer 9

Often people who are privileged feel they are deprived in some way - for example a middle class, well educated person may feel they are spiritually deprived because they don’t identify with that way of thinking

Question 10

World rejecting sects

Answer 10

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Question 11

Compensators

Answer 11

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Question 12

Wallis

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Question 13

1960s

Answer 13

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Question 14

Education

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Question 15

Failure of counter cultures

Answer 15

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