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The Church-Sect Typology

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When considering the issues of religion into today’s modern world group phenomenon, in my opinion, is the most important concept. Religion would not be religion without a group of people to make it so. Religion is what it is because of the people within a group have the same beliefs. If groups were not involved then it would just be an individual’s belief, which would not make it a religion. Religion works because of the groups it creates and the people that conglomerate their ideals and objectives and thus turn them into a religion.

As humans we crave socialization and a purpose or goals. Religious groups fulfill these types of needs in humans. These groups provide socialization, purpose, they provide a set of norms and ideals. People are drawn into these groups that have similar ideals and objectives …show more content…

From this we see another concept come into play when we consider the issues of religion, this concept being the church-sect typology. The church-sect typology is are a faction from a religious group that broke away to form another group. When we compare the group phenomenon and the church-sect typology we see a close relationship between the two. The group phenomenon gives way to the church-sect typology by allowing these larger groups to disperse into smaller groups where ideals, objectives and beliefs are much more similar. This is to say that individuals within a larger group have a slightly different view of the religion or how the religion is run come together and form the church-sect types. They have formed another group with much closer ideals and objective. From the church-sect typology we can see the different denominations arise from within religion. Such as within the religion of Christianity we see denominations such as Lutheranism, Calvinism, Baptism, and Anglicanism, among many other sects or

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