RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Emerging Church, Polytheism, Satan
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Messenger plus message plus audiences/followers = a new religious movement it"s a few that go on and create an actual social movement religions tend to be inherently conservative because they promise a sacred truth that organize life. You don"t want something like this to be changed on a weekly basis because it would undermine the credibility o the program. There are beliefs, organizations in beliefs to being with. They need to find fault in the tradition, so they need charisma. To launch a new religion requires: charisma extraordinary traits of character, personality charisma is a force that challenges and periodically ruptures tradition. Weber argues that you really need charisma, to be the catalyst for change. Weber introduces that charisma is going to be unstable. Since its vested in those individuals, when these people leave from the scene, a successful movement has to negotiate this problem.
