However, writers such as Heelas (1996) and Lewis superficially appear antagonistic to modernity, they actually give expression to mainstream values and assumptions, albeit in more radicalised form. Heelas and Lewis agree with Carpenter that people turn to New Religious Movements because they exemplify beliefs and values which form part of their everyday experience. While it is certainly true that New Religious Movements have, in the words of Beckford, come adrift from their former points of social anchorage' (cited in Dawson 1998, p. 10, this renders them neither trivial nor marginal to mainstream social life. The same point is made by Lorne Dawson in her analysis of the relationship between Ne Religious Movements and modernity. Dawson argues that instead of seeing New Religious Movements as opposed to modernity we should see them as part of an ongoing dialectic between religion and society in which each accommodates the other (p. 10). Following Beckford she suggests that New Religious Movements should not be understood as an institution but as a cultural resource of enormous symbolic power (p. 14).