Sentence examples for extreme sect from inspiring English sources

The Essenes, a more extreme sect, injected the idea of eternity into it, as well as storms and dungeons.

Bach's father, Johann Ambrosius, was a vigorous-minded Lutheran, while his mother came from a family of Anabaptists, an extreme sect of Protestants reprehended by Lutherans and Calvinists alike.

But the focus on such an extreme sect led to accusations the episode had mischaracterised Hinduism to viewers with little understanding of the religion, at a time when the Indian-American community is still reeling from attacks on two Hindus and a Sikh man in apparent hate crimes in the past fortnight.

He was the son of an army musician who sought refuge from his own circumstances in Quietism, an extreme sect of Pietism, and inflicted its religiosity upon his son.

Aghor is an extreme sect of Hinduism.

It is just as virulent among Muslim fundamentalists and extreme sects in other religions.

But she said her work convinced her that disturbing experiences in extreme sects were all too common.

The Pashupatas and the extreme sects were called Atimargika ("Away from the Path"; i.e., antinomian) to distinguish them from the Shaiva-siddhantas.

The school fell into disrepute when distortions of some of the mystical practices gave rise to two extreme sects, the Kapalika and Kalamukha.

Four months after their marriage, the young couple moved to Paris, which was then the centre of socialist thought and of the more extreme sects that went under the name of communism.

The gnostic-dualist view survived in late antiquity and into the Middle Ages, both in the East, among the Mandaeans, Yazīdī, and some extreme sects within the Shīʿite branch of Islam, and in the West, among the Bogomils and Cathari.