SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 59: Greek Orthodox Church Of Antioch, Reform Judaism, Islamic Fundamentalism

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: SOC
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Chenoia Bryant

Document Summary

The most basic of these today are religious movements, denominations, sects, and cults. A form of social movement, religious movements involve groups of people who join together to spread a new religion or to reinterpret an old one. Religious movements are large and typically open in their memberships, especially at the beginning of the movement. Examples of religious movements include the early christian movement, the lutheran movement that began the protestant reformation, the reformed jewish movement, and, more recently, the. The agendas of many religious movements fade when their leaders lose influence, are replaced, or die. A movement that survives, though, may become a church, or denomination. In other words, the movement may become a formal organization of adherents with established symbols, rituals, and methods of governance. Millennial movements periodically come on the scene, especially at the turn of centuries and millennia.