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A diagram of the church-sect typology continuum including church, denomination, sect, cult, new religious movement, and institutionalized sect The church-sect typology has its origins in the work of Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch , and from about the 1930s to the late 1960s it inspired numerous studies and theoretical models especially in ...
The application of the labels "cults" or "sects" to (for example) religious movements in government documents usually signifies the popular and negative use of the term "cult" in English and a functionally similar use of words translated as "sect" in several European languages.
A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political, or philosophical belief system, typically emerging as an offshoot of a larger organization. Originally, the term referred specifically to religious groups that had separated from a main body, but it can now apply to any group that diverges from a larger organization to follow a distinct set of ...
Scholars William Sims Bainbridge and Rodney Stark have argued for a further distinction between three kinds of cults: cult movements, client cults, and audience cults, all of which share a "compensator" or rewards for the things invested into the group. In their typology, a "cult movement" is an actual complete organization, differing from a ...
A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern [clarification needed] origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.
The authority of religious leaders also presents a threat to the authority of the political religion. As a result, some or all religious sects may be suppressed or banned. An existing sect may be converted into a state religion, but dogma and personnel may be modified to suit the needs of the party or state.
Halperin is a psychiatrist interested in the intersects between religion and psychiatry and psychology. He edited the volume Psychodynamic Perspectives on Religion, Sect, and Cult (1983). [215] Colin Campbell Sociology Campbell wrote an influential article in A Sociological Yearbook of Religion in Britain about the taxonomy of "cult" and ...
Today, the main division is between the Orthodox, Reform and Conservative lines, with several smaller movements alongside them. This threefold denominational structure is mainly present in the United States, while in Israel the fault lines are between the religious Orthodox and the non-religious. The movements differ in their views on various ...