Explaining the Growth of Religious Movements

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Postmodernity and the New Age
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The Growth of the New Age
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The Dynamics of Sects and NRMs
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Social Change
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Relative Deprivation
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Marginality
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Since the 1960s, there has been a rapid growth in the number of sects and cults, and in the number of people belonging to them. For example, there are estimated to be over 800 NRMs and over half a million individuals belonging to these and other non-mainstream Christian churches in the UK. Sociologists have offered three main explanations for this trend: marginality, relative deprivation, and social change.