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    In the late 1960’s and early 1970’s cults first emerged as harmless religious sectors. The term cult is originally associated with the term religion. Cults are centered around new ideas and new beliefs. A cult is defined as a religious movement that believe in a particular figure or object. Cults are smaller than denominations and different than sects. A sect is a religion that has separated itself from a larger church and a denomination is a sub-group of a larger religion that have their own set

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    THE VATICAN REPORT SECTS OR NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: A PASTORAL CHALLENGE May 3rd‚ 1986 FOREWORD In response to the concern expressed by Episcopal Conferences throughout the world‚ a study on the presence and activity of "sects‚" "new religious movements‚" [and] "cults" has been undertaken by the Vatican Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity‚ the Secretariat for Non-Christians‚ the Secretariat for

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    The causes of the influx of the new religious movements in Uganda New Religious Movement (NRM) New religious movement (NRM) is a term used to refer to a religious faith or an ethical‚ spiritual‚ or philosophical movement of recent origin that is not part of an established denomination‚ church‚ or religious body. The term NRM comprises a wide range of movements ranging from loose affiliations based on novel approaches to spirituality or religion to communitarian enterprises that demand a considerable

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    QUESTION Write a critical essay on the role of the media in the public perceptions of New Religious Movements with special reference to groups where violence has occurred. The media are significant actors in events leading to episodes of violence involving New Religious Movements since their emergence from the West in the 1960’s. The word cult has become associated with negative emotional connotations which made the public to have a general perception that it should be hated‚ feared or be avoided

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    explanations for the growth of new religious movements. By: Amy Rashid Over the years‚ there has been a growth of new religious movements in the society. This growth can be explained in terms of why people chose to join the movements or in terms of wider social changes. Hence‚ in this essay‚ I shall discuss several sociological explanations for this occurrence. Firstly‚ Steve Bruce (1995‚ 1996) attributes the development of a range of religious institutions‚ including sects and cults‚ to a general process

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    Assess sociological explanations for the growth of new religious movements [16] New religious movements are always increasing. These movements have always existed but there was a big increase in the 20th century‚ especially since the 1960s. Roy Wallis categorized these NRM (Wallis‚ 1984). He divides new religious movements into three main groups. Like Troeltsch‚ the principal criterion he uses to categorize religious organizations in their relationship to the outside world. He therefore distinguishes

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    Lorann Pate Professor Trudgen Intro Humanities/HUM2020 29 November 2011 Major Religious Movements There are numerous religions throughout the world that differ in several ways. Some of these religions we ourselves have never even thought of or heard of‚ for that matter. Most of the religions we hear about today are major religions rather than minor religions. Although‚ some of these major religions may seem minor to us because of their origin‚ or simply because they are not regularly practiced

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    New religious movements are always increasing. These movements have always existed but there was a big increase in the 20th century‚ especially since the 1960s. Although it can be difficult to classify these movements‚ there have been numerous attempts to classify them. With the number of new religious movements present in the 1970s‚ Wallis classified these movements into three types according to their relationships to the outside world. The first type which is world-rejecting new religious

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    New England Puritanism was a religious movement in Seventeenth century which was mainly based upon building a purer Church but it also had political‚ economic and cultural implications. In early sixteenth century‚ King Henry VIII decided to move away from Roman Catholic church and created the Church of England. He declared himself the supreme head of the church. The Puritans were Englishmen and women who overtime became dissatisfied with the direction taken by the Church of England. They perceived

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    religion since childhood‚ being a teenager‚ preached in the streets. At the age of 24‚ he founded the religious group "Disciples of Christ”‚ which in a year was renamed "People’s Temple". The new movement preached the achievement of "apostolic socialism". One of the main distinctive features of his movement was its ethnicity. There were representatives of a wide variety of peoples‚ unlike most religious groups of Indiana at that time‚ where white and black belonged to different parishes. This fact was

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