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Religion - Coggle Diagram

- - - - The People's Temple, Heaven's Gate
        
        Highly critical of the outside world, demand total commitment, members often love in isolated communities. They appeal to marginalised individuals, young people or those experiencing anomie (normlessness.
      - Neo - pentecostalism
        
        Breakaways from mainstream churches or denominations, they neither reject or deeply rebel against the world. They focus instead on restoring the spiritual purity of religion, emphasising inner spiritual growth. They often appeal to traditional, religious individuals who feel mainstream churches have lost their spiritual core.
      - Scientology
        
        Accept the world as it is, they instead offer spiritual techniques, knowledge or tools to help individuals achieve success, wealth and happiness within modern capitalist society. They often appeal to prosperous, middle-class professionals who seek self-improvement and stress relief.
  - - - The least organised, no formal membership, interactions happen via media, books or online.
    - - Based on a practitioner-client relationship, they offer services like therapy or spiritual fulfillment.
    - - Highly organised groups demanding significant commitment, they look like traditional sects, offering a complete spiritual package which requires members to live by specific rules.
- - - - Durkheim studied Arunta Aboriginal tribes and argued that when individuals worship a sacred totem, they are actually worshipping society itself.
- - - - Just as religion relies on sacred texts, science operates under a paradigm - a shared set of assumptions and theories.
      - During "normal science", researchers don't question their core assumptions, instead they work to solve puzzles within the existing paradigm, much like theologians unpacking a religious text.