Sentence examples for cult sect from inspiring English sources
All this is a far cry from the cult sect now being excavated in Brixton.
The most critical strategy in the Falun Gong suppression campaign, therefore, was to convince people to reclassify the Falun Gong into a number of "negatively charged religious labels", like "evil cult", "sect", or "superstition".
Granted, If you want people to follow your cult, sect, religion whatever, it's a strange move to hand out information name-checking one of the church's most heinous crimes ever, but that's just the start of it.
Porter is the author, also, of "Kids in Cults," "Jews and the Cults," and "Handbook of Cults, Sects, and Self-Realization Groups".
Shah's status as a teacher remained indefinable; disclaiming both the guru identity and any desire to found a cult or sect, he also rejected the academic hat.
German public discourse does not regard Scientology as a religion, but generally characterizes it as a Sekte (cult or sect), or as an exploitative profit-making venture preying on vulnerable minds.
- Religion: (the belief in or practice of a faith, cult or sect).
Such ideas led some to regard the Mormon as cult-like sect, dangerous to the nation.
Cults and sects typically require their members to eschew worldly pleasures and goods, to an even greater degree than mainstream faiths.
By his count there are "1,350 cults and sects in the United States, from the Church of Scientology to Hasidic Judaism," he said, speaking of offshoots of mainstream religions.
Thousands have been killed and injured in sectarian clashes in recent years.Even worse, those Muslims who feel that sharia has achieved little have been joining more extreme cults and sects.
