
1) Albigenses 2) Albigensian 3) Amish 4) Brethren 5) Cathari 6) Cathars 7) Group 8) Haredi 9) Iskcon 10) Jainism 11) Kokka 12) Quakers 13) Saktism 14) Shakers 15) Shaktism 16) Shia 17) Shiah 18) Shivaism 19) Shua 20) Shuha 21) Sivaism 22) Taoism 23) Vaishnavism 24) Vaisnavism 25) Zurvanism
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1) Amish 2) Anabaptists 3) Branch 4) Branch group 5) Branch of religion 6) Branch seen in intersection 7) Branch with followers 8) Breakaway body 9) Breakaway branch 10) Breakaway bunch 11) Breakaway group 12) Breakaway religious group 13) Broken-away group 14) Broken-off branch 15) Certain spin-off
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- a subdivision of a larger religious group
- a dissenting clique
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A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political or philosophical belief system, usually an offshoot of a larger religious group. Although in past it was mostly used to refer to religious groups, it has since expanded and in modern culture can refer to any organization that breaks away from a larger one to follow a different set of rules and princip...
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[World of Darkness] In the role-playing games and books based on the World of Darkness setting, by White Wolf Game Studio, a sect is a large organization of vampires with a leadership, rules and goals, that (at least in theory) trascend clan divisions. In the modern setting (e.g. Vampire: The Masquerade) there are two main sects, the Camari...
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[astrology] Golfers who have been members of the PGA Tour. ...
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• (n.) A cutting; a scion. • (n.) Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an e...
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a type of religious organisation that stands apart from the larger society
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A religious movement which breaks away from orthodoxy.
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Sect (sĕkt)
noun [ Latin
secare ,
sectum , to cut.] A cutting; a scion. [ Obsolete]
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A group of followers of a religious teacher or leader.
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1) A religious group that separates from a larger religious movement or tradition. 2) Sociologists also refer to sects as religious groups making high demands on their members and holding a high level of tension with the rest of society (Stark and Finke 2000
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[
n] - a subdivision of a larger religious group
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religious order noun a subdivision of a larger religious group
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Small ideological group, usually religious in nature, that may have moved away from a main group, often claiming a monopoly of access to truth or salvation. Sects are usually highly exclusive. They demand strict conformity, total commitment to their code of behaviour, and complete personal involvement, sometimes to the point of rejecting mainstream...
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General name for one of the three primary groups among the Kindred- the camarilla, Sabbat or Inconnu.
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A religious group that sets itself apart from society as a whole.
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