This interactive simulation is designed for AQA A Level Sociology: Beliefs in Society and is called Choosing My Religion. Students create their own religion by choosing from features found in world religions, new religious movements (NRMs) and New Age movements (NAMs). They can also name their religion and shape its beliefs, rituals, authority, organisation and relationship to wider society. The activity then generates a sociological profile, including whether the religion looks more like a church, denomination, sect, NRM, New Age movement, audience cult, client cult or cultic movement.
The simulation also includes a sociological joiner matrix showing which groups may be more likely to join the religion based on class, gender, age and ethnicity. This helps students apply ideas about social class, gender, ethnicity, age, spiritual shopping, marginalisation, cultural defence and religious organisation in a more active and creative way.
Choosing My Religion
Name your religion, choose its core features, and then see how sociologists might classify it and which groups may be most likely to join it.
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