Growth of New Religious Movements | Beliefs in Society | AQA A-Level Sociology

welcome to this tutor to use sociology topic video looking at beliefs in society focusing on the growth of new religious movements as we've seen in previous videos new religious movements include cults sects and denominations of established religious organizations they've increased in recent years but started to form on the back of the protestant reformation with different

denominations of established religious organizations forming throughout the period of modernity there has also been an expansion of new religious movements in the latter half of the 20th century with many sects and cults forming in response to wide-ranging social changes in society in this video we're going to look at some of the theoretical explanations for

the growth of these new religious movements there are four explanations that we will examine each linked into social changes that have occurred and resulted in the formation of new religious movements or nrms firstly marginalization the formation of nrms by those on the edges of society secondly the link between deprivation and the membership of nrms

thirdly how wide-ranging social changes have led people to question establish religions and form new religious movements and finally the increase in supply of new religious movements and how this has increased membership of them ideas of marginalization were first discussed by weber in relation to the protestant reformation he argued that the existing religious

institutions had pushed individuals to the margins of society and as a result they looked for other explanations for their position in society according to weber people sought out explanations for their disadvantaged position what weber called a theodicy of disprivilege this explanation can not only be examined through movements in the protestant reformation but the formation