Especially in South Korea some of the most successful sects emerged (e.g. the Moon sects).
Most modern sects demand space for religious education adjoining the community church or temple.
Ultra-Orthodox men and boys from the most stringent sects routinely curse the Israeli police as "Nazis" during confrontations.
Most Shia sects place importance on the belief that the twelfth and final imam is hidden (called "in occultation") and will reappear one day to fulfill divine will.
In the absence of central government authority, Shia militias are taking dominant roles, amplifying sectarian enmity between Islam's two most dominant sects.
But behind the tasteful decoration he would find attributes common to most fundamentalist sects of the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam): They are exclusive, secretive and hierarchical, especially toward women.
Within the Muslim countries, however, there is fierce opposition to the main group because of its claim that Ghulam Ahmad was a prophet (most Muslim sects believe in the finality of prophethood with Muhammad) and because of its separatist organization.
Ultra-Orthodox men and boys from the most stringent sects have hurled rocks and eggs at the police and journalists, shouting "Nazis" at the security forces and assailing female reporters with epithets like "shikse," a derogatory Yiddish term for a non-Jewish woman or girl, and "whore".
The Bobovers, whose name derives from a village in southeastern Poland, tend to look to their grand rabbi more than most other sects for advice on business, marriage and family matters, according to William B. Helmreich, a professor of sociology and Judaic studies at the City University of New York.
Each colony had some form of intolerance towards most other sects, especially Catholics; Massachusetts went so far as to hang a number of Quaker missionaries.
