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New Age Religions

Mechanisms of Cultural ChangeSmall and Large Scale Societies

Thomas Jefferson

"Every generation needs a new revolution."

Technologically Simple Societies

Relative isolation generally means — slow change

Change does occur

2 ways;

Discovery

Innovation

Discovery

A new awareness of something in the environment

!• Jared Diamond

InventionUsing technology at hand to come up with a solution

Non-isolated Societies

Societies that are exposed to other ideas

Movement of cultural traits through:

Diffusion

Diffusion

The Apparent movement of cultural traits from one society to another

Tech more likely than social

Sometimes a single idea can lead to:

Stimulus Diffusion, a new idea stimulated by another

More Terms

Acculturation

One society possibly forcing another to:

Assimilate, take in another cultures ideas, information, ect…

Lets check Haitian Vodoo pg. 232

Revitalization Movements

The movements occur as a way to stand against acculturation

Not always religious — Chicano movement in the U.S.

Different Types

Nativistic Movements

• Big gap between dominant & subordinate cultures

• Push to remove dominant • Return to Past • Ghost Dance pg.240

Ghost Dancehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L1Fslf3g2M

Revivalistic Movements

• Bring back golden age

New Religious Movements

These Religious movement usually come from another older religion

Denomination: if religion is still mainstream yet has points

Jedi Church

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http://vimeo.com/38026023

Jedi Doctrine

No official doctrine or scripture

All living things share the living FORCE

The Force binds us all together (think of a God as that force)

Two sides — Good (light) vs Evil (dark)

Something inside tells us right & wrong

The Last Assignment……

You guys/gals spread some knowledge

One group does Cargo Cults, next Mormonism, and so on …Wiccan, What are Cults, Branch Davidians, UFO/Heavens Gate, & Raelians