Sentence examples for number of sects from inspiring English sources

Later, with the rise of the bhakti movement, which stressed devotion to a personalized deity, the guru was venerated as the leader or founder of any of a number of sects (many of which now included women and some of which had women gurus).

The doctrines of Jesus, who was crucified about ad 30, first took root among the Jews of Palestine, where a large number of sects were proliferating orthodox sects, such as the Sadducees and the Pharisees, as well as dissident and sometimes persecuted sects such as the Essenes, whose ascetic practices have been illuminated by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the mid-20th century.

In the United States, a number of sects formed in the 1800s that were antagonistic to the modern medicine movement.

The number of Sect Shintō groups was limited to 13 after the organization of Tenri-kyō.

Numbering millions of faithful in the 17th century, the Old Believers split into a number of different sects, of which several survived into modern times.

The Hasidim comprise a number of Jewish sects that originated in Eastern Europe in the 18th century; the men wear the distinctive garb of that era, including formal hats and long black coats, and tend to have side curls and beards.

The Maoists' antics were rivalled by a number of Trotskyist sects, smaller and larger, whose implosion often involved the mistreatment of women, and the story is by no means over.

The doctrine was based on Pauline Scripture but has not been accepted by a number of Christian sects and interpreters, especially among those Christians who consider the story of Adam and Eve less a fact and more a metaphor of the relation of God and man.

Over the past six years, the number of such sects has grown, predominantly in cities.

By 10 A.M. Monday, the number of the sect members killed in the violence continued to increase… By 4 30 P.M. Thursday, when the sect's leader, Yusuf, was arrested by the military in his in-law's house, not far from his own house, Maiduguri streets were still littered with corpses, mainly of the sect members.

Checking the chromosome number of members of sect.