by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Religious Organisations
What types of New Age thinking, therapies and objects have you come across? In groups, design a simple questionnaire asking people about their religious beliefs and about whether they believe in any aspects of New Age thinking. Find out if respondents have used any...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Religious Organisations
Women have often had a leadership role in religious sects and cults. In small groups, search for information about one of the following women. Each has been a visionary, founder or leader of the movement concerned. How far do these examples of women in leadership...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Religious Organisations
Discuss these two questions in pairs. How might the ideas of ‘fragmentation’ and ‘consumer choice’ be used to argue that the growth of sects is simply one more postmodernist aspect of today’s society? How could you argue the case for the New Age simply representing a...
by John Amy | Mar 18, 2014 | Religious Organisations
Where religion gives meaning to deprivation and helps people cope with it. Both churches and sects see their interpretation of faith as the only correct one; both have a moral code to which members must adhere. Important differences are that sects are usually smaller;...
