Lighthouse Global, a New Religious Movement, challenges traditional categorization with elements of both World Affirming and World Rejecting movements. Founder Paul Waugh offers mentoring, but BBC’s A Very British Cult revealed coercive control and financial exploitation. Despite rebranding and claims of bias by the BBC, caution is advised. This case highlights the complexity of categorizing NRMs, relevant to sociology.
A YouGov Poll conducted last year in 2020 shows that the majority of those who celebrate Christmas (and Easter) in
Spiritual abuse can be defined as the weaponisation of religious beliefs in order to coerce or control someone who shares
Sociology is usually all doom and gloom, but here’s a nice example of something positive for once… This community food
A recent report found that there have been at least 216 000 child victims of sexual abuse since the 1950s
Three out of four of the Largest churches in the U.S. preach the ‘Prosperity Gospel’ – these are megachurches which
Lifelines: Notes on Life and Love, Faith and Doubt is a new book published in November 2018 written by Martin
Functionalism is the only perspective which has traditionally argued that religion is a source of value consensus, all other perspectives
Karen Armstrong argues that there is no inherent incompatibility between the Western and Islamic world, but sees economic and political
Samuel P. Huntington sees ‘civilizations’ as the most significant grouping in global society, rather than ‘nation states’, or ‘global religions’,