SOCA02H3 Lecture Notes - Donella Meadows, David Koresh, Environmentalism
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north american scholars weren"t satisfied with european classification of system. some religions are churches: church is bureaucratic. strict hierarchy pope and everything else under that: bureaucracies have regulations that need to be followed. sects breakaway european groups: broke away from churches, generally have fewer members, less bureaucratic, quakers are not bureaucratic at all. don"t need to be a minister or priest anyone can be a quaker. na scholars found the classification system unsatisfactory for na. protestant particular in england: anglicanism rule the state for about a 100 years till 1688, Theocratic ecclesia: i ran is the best example because large number of religious people also ruled. christianity has never developed theocratic system because it did not have the power to carry it out: reason: law. canon law controlled business in medieval period. ecclesia england had common laws: common law the law of the common people.
