Since the 60’s, there has been a large increase in the number of new religions and organisations, such as the ‘Moonies’ and Transcendental Meditation. This has led to multiple attempts to classify new religious movements. Roy Wallis categorises these new religious movements into three groups based on their relationship to the outside world – whether they accommodate, reject or affirm it. World- rejecting NRM’s are very similar to Troeltsch’s sects. They vary greatly in size, from hundreds to thousands of members. They have several characteristics; they are clearly religious organisations with a clear notion of god and are highly critical of outside society and expect or seek radical change. World- accommodating NRM’s are often breakaways from mainstream churches or denominations, such as Subud, an offshoot from Islam. They neither accept nor reject the world, the focus on religious rather than worldly matters, seeking to achieve religions spiritual purity. World- affirming NRM’s are groups that differ from all other religious groups and may lack some of the conventional features of religion, such as collective worship and some are not highly organised. They accept the world as it is and offer members success in terms of mainstream goals. There has been a rapid growth in the number of NRM’s and the number of individuals belonging to them. It has been estimated; 800 NRM’s exist and over half a million individuals belonging to these and other non-mainstream Christian churches in the UK. Sociologists have offered three main explanations for this trend: marginality, relative deprivation and social change. Bruce argues that the growth of world-affirming NRM’s is a response to modernity, especially to the rationalisation of work. Work no long provides people with a meaning or a source of identity. Even though we are given less opportunities to succeed, we are still