The Sociology of Secularization: Religious Groups

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Sep 1955 English Publisher:University of Chicago PressJournal:American Journal of Sociology, volume 61, pages 121-128 (issn: 0002-9602, eissn: 1537-5390,

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doi: 10.1086/221692

The Sociology of Secularization: Religious Groups

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Five types representing increasing degrees of secularization are: the cult, the sect, the institutionalized sect, the church, and the denomination. The Christian Science church has of late taken on the character of an institutionalized sect, as evidenced by its demographic, ecological, associational, structural, and social-psychological features.

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