Authors : Iuliia Iakovleva
Abstract: The researcher summarizes the existing in modern sociology information about main organizational forms of religions: a sect, a cult, a denomination and a church. First of all the author differentiates theological and scientific approaches to the phenomenon of the sect. Then he concentrates on the concepts of the sect (established sect), the cult, the audience cult and the client cult, indicating their social features and spread in the modern society.
Iuliia Iakovleva , 2020. The Sociological Typology of New Religious Communities. Research Journal of Agronomy, 14: 7-10.