Reconceptualizing Types of Religious Organization: Dominant, Sectarian, Alternative, and Emergent Tradition Groups
One important theoretical task in the study of religion is distinguishing among the different organizational forms that religious groups assume. The most influential typology of religious organization has been based upon distinctions of church, denomination, sect, and cult. However, the various form...
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University of Californiarnia Press
2012
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Nova religio
Year: 2012, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 4-28 |
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B Sect B cultural alignment B social alignment B Typology B emergent group |
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