Definition of religious sect Religious sect
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| religious sect - a subdivision of a larger religious group | ||
| sect, religious order | ||
| organized religion, religion, faith a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality" | ||
| sisterhood a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns) | ||
| albigenses, cathari, cathars a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism | ||
| high anglican church, high church a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority) | ||
| abecedarian a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge | ||
| amish sect an orthodox Anabaptist sect separated from the Mennonites in late 17th century; settled chiefly in southeastern Pennsylvania | ||
| karaites a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century | ||
| shia, shiah, shiah islam one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam; mainly in Iran | ||
| sunni islam, sunni one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam | ||
| shivaism, sivaism worship of Shiva one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon | ||
| saktism, shaktism worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva | ||
| vaishnavism, vaisnavism worship of Vishnu one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon | ||
| haredi any of several sects of Orthodox Judaism that reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel | ||
| international society for krishna consciousness, iskcon, hare krishna a chant to the Hindu god Krishna | ||
| jainism religion founded in the 6th century BC as a revolt against Hinduism; emphasizes asceticism and immortality and transmigration of the soul; denies existence of a perfect or supreme being | ||
| taoism philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events | ||
| kokka, kokka shinto the branch of Shinto recognized as the official state religion of Japan | ||
| shua, shuha shinto any branch of Shinto other than Kokka | ||
| brethren (plural) the lay members of a male religious order | ||
| monastic order, order the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list" | ||
| quakers, religious society of friends, society of friends a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers | ||
| shakers, united society of believers in christ's second appearing a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States | ||
| vaudois, waldenses a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century | ||
| zurvanism a heretical Zoroastrian doctrine holding that Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe and that both Ahura Mazda and Ahriman were Zurvan's offspring | ||
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