The U.S.’s “fertile soil” for new religious movements

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The U.S.’s “fertile soil” for new religious movements

1. Secularism

2. Anxiety over threats to human survival

3. Uncertainties produced by complexity of modern existence

4. Betrayals by political and religious leaders

5. Intense longing for transcendence

6. Breakdown of family and neighborhood groups

7. Feeling of lostness which moral relativism accentuates

8. Naïve openness to religious imports

9. Affluence and consumerism

10. Failures in the church

The U.S.’s “fertile soil” for new religious movements

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