social change in which individuals come to experience their lives as being linked and organized societally rather than locally (as in earlier eras)

a pattern of religiosity characterized by norms of forgoing worldly pleasure but at the same time engaging in religious action in the world

a crisis in the moral order of a social group resulting in the inability of the group to provide order and normative regulation for individual members.

power that is generally accepted by subjects as legitimate, not based on coercion.

a group status position in society stratified by ascription

extraordinary personal qualities that are the basis of an audience granting the holder legitimate authority

characteristic of a type of religious group that considers itself uniquely legitimate and that maintains a relatively positive relationship with society

typified by an acceptance of ordinary levels of personal religiosity and of a diffused religious role

any set of beliefs and rituals related to the past, present, and/or future of a people ("nation") giving that people a transcendent sense of their collective destiny

a group of people whose worldview differs significantly from that of the dominant society