RE105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mind Control, Mass Suicide, Deprogramming
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Term that academics use for what they use to call (cid:498)cults(cid:499) happen in the context. A new religious movement is a religious movement that did not previously. Three ways we think of nrm: 1. New forms of existing religions: a nrm that is a new form of something existing is something based within christianity but perhaps have practices significantly diff from the large practice of christianity. Ie 200 years ago about we had a nrm in america, begin outta christianity ended being called the church of the. Latter day saints now known as modern mormonism: mormanism became a new religious movement that stuck around and gained validity to the point of being a new religious option, ppl saw in suspicious way when it first came out. Ie the peoples temple run by jim jones: that group eventually moved as a group outta the states into south america to create a community called (cid:498)jones town(cid:499, comes outta existing tradition, 2.
