Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Religious organisations
and movements
- Churches
- large organiations
- few demands
of members
- monopoly of
the truth
- Linked to
the state
- Sects
- Small
- exclusive groups
- hostile to wider society
- breakaways
from existing
religions
- monopoly of
the truth
- Cults
- least organised of
all organisations
- Highly individualistic
- no defining belief
system
- new religions
- Denominations
- accepts societies values
- not linked to
the state
- tolerant of other
religions
- New Religious
Movements (NRMs)
- World Rejecting NRMs
- critical of the
outside world
- expect radical
change from
followers
- limited contact with
outside world
- World Accommodating NRMs
- Breakaways from
existing churches
- They neither accept
or reject the world
- World Affirming NRMs
- followers can
access spiritual
or supernatural
powers
- promise
followers success
in their goals