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  1. 2. This type of religious organisation is highly individualistic, loose-knit and usually small grouping around some shared themes and interests, but usually without a sharply defined and exclusive belief system
  2. 4. This religious group offer their followers access to spiritual or supernatural powers. They accept the world as it is. They are optimistic and promise followers success in terms of mainstream goals and values, such as careers and personal relationships.
  3. 5. He identified other types of religious organisation, such as denominations and cults
  4. 8. this type of religious organisation is hostile to wider society and they expect a high level of commitment. It draws their members from the poor and oppressed. Many are led by a charismatic leader rather than a bureaucratic hierarchy.
  5. 10. This religious groups neither accept nor reject the world, and they focus on religious rather than worldly matters, seeking to restore the spiritual purity of religion.
  6. 11. Stark and Bainbridge used that word to explain the following splits in existing organisations. They break away from churches usually because of disagreements about doctrine.
  7. 12. This type of cult do not involve formal membership or much commitment. Example astrology and UFO cult.
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  1. 1. is a type of religion organisation which is somewhere in between a church and sect
  2. 2. this type of religious organisation appeals to higher class because they are ideologically conservative and often closely linked to the state.
  3. 3. This person made the first attempt to identify the features of different types of religious organisations
  4. 4. This religious groups are clearly religious organisations with a clear notion of God. They are highly critical of the outside world and they expect or seek radical change. To achieve salvation, members must make a sharp break with their former life.
  5. 6. This type of cults are based on the relationship between a consultant and a client and it run by 'therapies' who promise personal fulfilment and self-discovery.
  6. 7. This person categorises these new religious movements (NRMs) into three groups based on their relationship to the outside world - whether they reject the world, accommodate to it, or affirm it.
  7. 9. This person argues against Troeltsch's idea of a church as having a religious monopoly only applies to the Catholic Church before the 16th century Protestant Reformation, when it had a religious monopoly over society, symbolised by its massive and imposing cathedrals.