Final answer:
Ramet (1991) focused on the role of religious rituals and practices in shaping social currents, which can be a part of broader Religious/Redemptive movements aiming for spiritual growth and internal change, intersecting with other factors of social change.
Step-by-step explanation:
Ramet (1991) looked at religious rituals and practices in relation to social currents. A primary way in which social movements can provoke change is through religion, which acts as an agent of social transformation albeit at a slower pace compared to other social institutions. Religious/Redemptive movements seek inner change or spiritual growth, and may intersect with broader social changes prompted by factors like technology, population, environment, and political revolutions.
- Reform Movements: Antinuclear groups, MADD, Dreamers movement.
- Revolutionary Movements: 1960s counterculture, The Weather Underground.
- Religious/Redemptive Movements: Heaven's Gate, Branch Davidians.
- Alternative Movements: Transcendental meditation, macrobiotic diet.
- Resistance Movements: Ku Klux Klan, Minutemen.