Soc Relign Pt2:Sec Relg Ils 80

by Stark,Werner

• ISBN13: 9780415175906
• ISBN10: 0415175909
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Originally published in 1967.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(4)
The Origin of Sects	5	(88)
The main social cause of sectarianism	6	(23)
Christian Science: an instructive special case	29	(6)
Another instructive special case: The Christadelphians	35	(2)
The minor social causes of sectarianism	37	(9)
The role of the sect leader	46	(2)
Possible shifts in the causes of sectarianism	48	(3)
Religious sect and political party	51	(8)
Religious sectarianism as an answer to religious establishment	59	(13)
The State versus the sect	72	(10)
The ecclesiola in ecclesia	82	(1)
The confrontation of sect and State Church	83	(5)
The transition from State Church to sect: some psychological aids	88	(5)
The Nature and Variety of Sects	93	(122)
Messianic and non-messianic sects	94	(4)
The sect as a religiously conceived elite	98	(13)
The concept of a gathered church	111	(4)
The inner structure of sectarian groups: anti-authoritarianism and democracy	115	(5)
Contractualism and congregationalism	120	(5)
Weakness and strength of sectarian integration	125	(3)
The sect as a contraculture	128	(30)
The psychology of sectarianism	158	(15)
Types of sects	173	(1)
The retrogressive versus the progressive sect	174	(10)
The rigoristic versus the antinomian sect	184	(14)
The violent versus the non-violent sect	198	(17)
The Decay of Sects	215	(132)
The millenarian phase	217	(18)
Issues of the conflict of sect and society: (a) Annihilation, (b) Withdrawal, (c) Adjustment	235	(52)
The splitting of sects	287	(14)
The Denomination	301	(11)
Secondary forms of sectarianism	312	(15)
The case of Soviet Russia	327	(6)
The case of the United States of America	333	(14)
Index	347