It was a study of Militant, a Trotskyist sect which successfully burrowed into the Labour Party.
Croatia's Doris Dragovic is singing a love song from Jesus to Mary Magdalene, while France's Nayah used to belong to a religious sect which believes that God is a spacecraft-travelling alien... but she refuses to discuss it.
Leonardo Da Vinci heads a secret sect which guards the true history of Christ's family.
Mongkut also had become concerned that many superstitious practices had grown up around the core Theravada teachings, and he established a new sect, which was dedicated to purifying Buddhist practice.
This seems to protect the Falun Gong, a spiritual sect which China's Communists consider subversive and whose leader lives in America, as well as the Roman Catholic church and most other worried bodies.
Boko Haram, a Muslim sect which has carried out recent bombings, denied responsibility for the explosion.The UN's World Food Programme sent food to Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, in an effort to save the lives of people hit by drought in the Horn of Africa.
The meteoric rise of Veerashaivism (a religious sect which preaches devotion to the god Shiva, also called "Lingayatism") in caste-ridden 12th-century Karnataka has historic significance because it involved commoners from the lower strata of society, people who had hitherto been denied access to even basic education.
Holding that reason and faith can coexist, Averroes has angered an Islamic sect, which plays into the schemes of Sheik Riad, a trusted but treacherous figure who has allied himself with the fundamentalists.
Making matters worse, Mr Diouf lost the support of the Mourides, an Islamic Sufi sect which is powerful in Senegal, and whose leaders used to order their followers to vote for him.
(Syria is ruled by a minority Alawite sect, which is an offshoot of Shiism — but the country, like most of the rest of the Arab world, is majority Sunni).
