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Pages in category "Religious organizations established in 1960" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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Organized religion in the United States changed in the face of secularizing pressures after World War II. There was a proliferation of megachurches. Denominations such as the Assemblies of God , Southern Baptists ( SBC ), and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) became more popular.
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Modern science seemed to have had eliminated the need for religion to explain the natural world, and God took up less and less space in people's daily lives. The ideas of various scholars were brought in, including the application of contemporary philosophy to the field of theology, and a more personal, individual approach to religion.
In the winter of 1636, former Puritan leader Roger Williams was expelled from Massachusetts. He argued for freedom of religion, writing "God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and enforced in any civill state." [38] Williams later founded Rhode Island on the principle of religious freedom. He welcomed people of religious ...
The church-sect typology and the notion of a church-sect continuum or movement from the sect to the church came under strong attack in the sociology of religion of the 1960s onwards. [ 12 ] [ 7 ] The theory suffered from lack of agreement on the distinguishing features, from proliferation of new types and from questionable empirical evidence on ...
One modern academic theory of religion, social constructionism, says that religion is a modern concept that suggests all spiritual practice and worship follows a model similar to the Abrahamic religions as an orientation system that helps to interpret reality and define human beings, [6] and thus believes that religion, as a concept, has been ...