Question

In U.S. society, do you believe there is social stratification that correlates with religious beliefs? What about within the practitioners of a given religion? Provide examples to illustrate your point.

Answer 1

Most religions progress through various authoritative stages. For instance, Christianity started as a cult, changed into a sect, and today exists as an ecclesia.
Cults, similar to sects, are new religious gatherings. In the United States today this term regularly conveys pejorative meanings. Be that as it may, practically all religions started as cults and slowly advanced to dimensions of more noteworthy size and association.
A sect is a little and moderately new gathering. The majority of the notable Christian denominations in the United States today started as sects. For instance, the Methodists and Baptists challenged their parent Anglican Church in England, similarly as Henry VIII challenged the Catholic Church by shaping the Anglican Church. From "dissent" comes the term Protestant.
Every so often, a sect is a breakaway gathering that might be in pressure with bigger society. They some of the time guarantee to restore "the essentials" or to challenge the veracity of a specific teaching. At the point when enrollment in a sect increments after some time, it might develop into a denomination.
A few sects break down without developing into denominations. Sociologists call these established sects. Built up sects, for example, the Amish or Jehovah's Witnesses fall somewhere between sect and denomination on the ecclesia– cult continuum since they have a blend of sect-like and denomination-like qualities.
The term ecclesia, initially alluding to a political get together of residents in old Athens, Greece, presently alludes to an assemblage. In humanism, the term is utilized to allude to a religious gathering that most all individuals from a general public have a place with. It is considered a broadly perceived, or official, religion that holds a religious imposing business model and is firmly aligned with state and common forces. The United States does not have an ecclesia by this standard; truth be told, this is the kind of religious association that a considerable lot of the primary settlers came to America to get away.
The Christian thought of the Holy Trinity (God, Jesus, Holy Spirit) resists the definition of monotheism, which is a religion dependent on faith in a solitary divinity, to certain researchers.

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