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What characterises world-affirming religious movements?

Correct answer B. They embrace conventional cultural values but offer new means of achieving them

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In Roy Wallis's typology, world-affirming movements accept mainstream goals such as success and fulfilment but offer new spiritual techniques for achieving them, as with many self-help movements.

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