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Evaluate the view that religious groups, such as sects, emerge in response to rapid social change.
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2. Evaluate the view that religious groups, such as sects, emerge in response to rapid social change. (40) The view of the title is that sects emerge as a response to rapid social change, social dislocation and anomie. Cohn 1957 said that the experience of disasters either natural or manmade e.g. outbreaks of plague or war can lead to people feeling a deep sense of doom and an eager desire for salvation. Sects may also emerge as a response to contact with an "alien culture" especially when it is with being occupied and colonised e.g. when Palestine was colonised by the Romans a sect emerged which is now known as Christianity. Wilson (1970) argues that Methodism emerged as a sect as a response to the "chaos and uncertainty of life in newly settled industrial areas" by the new urban working class. However some sociologist do not think that sects emerge as...
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