Meaning of Sect | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.
2. An ancient astrological concept, a form of polarity by which heavenly bodies were designated as either diurnal or nocturnal.
   historical, uncountable
3. A group following a specific ideal or a leader.
4. A cutting; a scion.
   obsolete

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Examples

“a religious sect”

“Zen Center welcomes visitors, guests, and prospective students, but it does not engage⟳ in systematic institutional or network recruiting of new members, unlike the Christian sect and Erhard Seminars Training.”

“Every person who is not a fellow member, and every social, religious and political institution that lies outside the sect's domain, is portrayed as a representative of Satan's world. In our research⟳, we found that Moonies and members of many Christian sects with similar religious and political doctrines often focus⟳ on such beliefs to the exclusion of all other thought.”

“Peoples Temple and the Branch Davidians both approximated the 'apocalyptic sect' as an ideal type⟳. In such sects the end⟳ of the world is taken as a central tenet.”

“There are scores of modern religious cults and sects that have⟳ been influenced by Hinduism to varying degrees. Werner Erhard, founder of 'Landmark Education's 'The Forum',' and 'est' seminars, which have⟳ about 700,000 graduates, was influenced by Hinduism through Swami Muktananda, one of Erhard's principal gurus.”

“The Indiana Peoples Temple was essentially a sect, which was joined by new religious movement members in California, which then recruited black church members as it focused its ministry on the residents of urban California.”

“Branch Davidians are a modern religious sect that claims to be an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The church renounced any connection with the sect in the 1930s.”

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