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• What are some of the sources of challenges?

  • New or different interpretation of beliefs, text, story, ethical issues. 
  • Social development, trust, authority, reorganisation, reallocate roles.
  • War, persecution, natural disaster
  • Scientific theories or development
• What are some responses?

  • Ignore
  • Deal with the source of the challenge (directly, education, expel, letter, threats, public or private debates, warning)
  • Make counter statements
  • Reinterpret beliefs, text
  • Redesign rituals and other practices
  • Reorganise social structure 
  • Develop or amend code of ethics
• Sources of STANCES (both in religion and wider society)

  • beliefs
  • authority structures
  • official teachings
  • rulings of religious law and tradition
  • key individuals and attitudes