beliefs

define church

what is a denomination

what is a sect

what is a cult

Wallis Typology (1984)

world rejecting

world accommodating

World affirming

Stark and Bainbridge

Audience cults

Client cults

Cultic Movements

why are sects short lived

why do people join NRM

theories of religion

functionalist

Durheim

Malinowski

Parson

Bellah

Marxism

religious ideology
Lenin

alienation - Marx

EV - Althusser

Examples to back up Marxists

Feminism

armstrong

evaluation of Armstrong
importance of female gods

religious forms of feminism

piety movements

Liberal Protestant organisation

conservative beliefs

weber

evaluation of Weber

religion and social protest
american civil rights

relgious organisation contributed to social change by

New Christian right

Marxism and change
dual charcter

liberation theology

pentecostal challenge

millenarian movements

Gramsci

Religion and class conflict

secularisation evidence

Weber: rationalisation

disenchantment

a technological worldview

structural differentiation

disengagement

social and cultural diversity

social and cultural diversity cricitisms

religious diversity

plausibility structure

cultural defence

cultural transition

Cultural defence and transition citicisms

secularisation in America

criticisms of secularisation theory

evidence against secularisation

postmodernist
Obligation to consumption

davie

vicarious religion

crticisms

Spiritual shopping

postmodern lyon - growth of NRMs

criticisms

religious consumerism

Criticisms

new age

criticisms

religious market theory

competition in religious market theory

criticisms

existential security theory

criticisms

why are ethnic minority group more relgigious

gender and religion - why are women more religious

why do old people turn to religion

why do young people seem to be less religious than older people

social class and religion

globalisation

User-orientated religious market

transnational

four effects of globalisation

the characteristics of fundamentalism

fundamentalism and modernity

cosmopolitanism

fundamentalism is a response to living in....

resistance identity

project identity

criticisms of response to fundamentalism

monotheistic religion

two fundamentalism

secular fundamentalism

Clash of civilisation - Huntington

religion has increased .... between civilisation for economic are military power e.g middle east

Criticisms

god and globalisation in India

hinduism and consumerism

Nanda rejects ...

hinduism ultra-nationalism

capitalism in east Asia

Pentacostalism in latin America

criticisms

pentacostalism : Global and local
lehnmann

success of pentacostalism as a global religion

ideology and science
is religion seen as closed or open
is science seen as closed or open

science as a belief system

the impact of science

open belief system

popper and falsificationism

criticism

The CUDOS norms

what cudos stands for

closed belief systems

horton

azande

self- sustaining beliefs

Science is a closed belief system - velikosky

kuhn

interpretivist sociologists

woolglar

marxists and feminist

postmodernists

lyotard

ideology

Marxism and ideology

hegemony and revolution

the ideology of nationalism

functionalism: nationalism as civil religion

gellner - nationalism and modernity

mannheim - ideology and utopia