Assess the contribution of sociological studies in the role of sects and other NRMs in relgion in moderen societies
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'Assess the contribution of sociological studies of sects and other NRMs to an understanding of the role of religion in modern industrial societies' Many people now still believe in religion but in very different ways and everyone has their own personal ways of believing and have their own ways of showing it. Over the last few years there has been a growth in the amount of sects and NRMs. People have different reasons for believing in religion, Sociologists believe that there has been a growth in sects and other NRMs in society because there has always been a lot of them around but they have only recently been kept on a database and Weber believes that it's a means with coping with marginality, the people that are not part of mainstream society like unemployed people, women, or people that have been a part of man made or natural disasters and people...

