Wuthnow's Tribal Analysis

Tribal is a word that Wuthnow uses to describe exclusivists, developing a tendency to isolated in the world of their own religion shared with people of their faith (158). Many exclusivists view of other religions is often damning, viewing them as cults, fanatics, and those that many oppress women and children. That the people are “shallow, confused, and lack judgment” (180). Special attachment to the rules and the culture are found (177), but they may have a certain respect for other religions that have a high emphasis on their priorities of actions, sobriety for example (187). Wuthnow puts it succinctly as, “practice follows belief and belief legitimizes practice.” Because of their conviction to believe they have found the only truth they