What is "religious sect"

Usage examples of "religious sect".

The Herodians were probably more of a political party than a religious sect, though Gibbon is most likely right as to their occasional conformity.

That is essentially a Quaker State, the fragment of a religious sect which, there, in the other States, in England, are a homogeneous mass, acting with one mind, and that directed by the mother society in England.

To the Romans, this foreign religious sect, with its belief in the imminent end of the world, must have seemed almost insane.

In earlier times, when the relevant social unit was the tribe, the religious sect, a nation, or even a civilization, it was possible for the local mythology in service to that unit to represent all those beyond its bounds as inferior, and its own local inflection of the universal human heritage of mythological imagery either as the one, the true and sanctified, or at least as the noblest and supreme.

Conflict, much of it secret, had arisen between the religious Sect and the reactionary Fellowship.

She belonged to a religious sect which had found her guilty of witchcraft.

I had no sense of any of this at the time: I was on company time, following up a report of an incident at a religious sect.

It might refer to his country, his military order, or his religious sect.

Myself, I think it must be a religious sect, for he is uncommonly gentle with children, peasants, and other animals.

After his death, the caliphate was made hereditary and the leaders of the faithful who had begun their career as the spiritual head of a religious sect became the rulers of a vast empire.

In Whit, lain Banks describes a strange Scottish religious sect, and children who grow up in this sect.

Twenty years after the first resurrection, he had become converted to a religious sect, the Dowists, by the founder himself, Lorenzo Dow.

Twenty-six members of a Papua New Guinea religious sect died after setting themselves on fire in the airport of the capital city of Port Moresby.