In the mid-19th century a popular sect known as the Taiping, whose leader claimed to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ, launched a bloody rebellion that nearly toppled the Qing dynasty (see picture).
while some sources give a little lower estimate of 96.4 percent, with the most popular sect being the Hanafite school of Sunni Islam.
Cole was wearing the raiment of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, a popular sub-sect of Rastafari founded in Jamaica in the late 1960s and with whom Marley had long been associated; his inclusion in the proceedings had been tolerated by the Ethiopian elders, to whom the Rasta doctrines represented a form of heresy, only under protest.
From the beginning, the Macoutes were a strange amalgam of popular militia, religious sect, mass political organization, secret police, protection racket, and terrorist unit.
As in other countries, many people simply will not talk.Horizon's Mr Yuan says he can ask almost anything these days, but he avoids the most politically sensitive subjects such as Falun Gong, a once widely popular quasi-Buddhist sect that the government banned in 1999, or the Tiananmen Square protests.
Under his reign the Hasmonean kingdom of Judaea in ancient Palestine attained power and great prosperity, and the Pharisees, a scholarly sect with popular backing, and the Sadducees, an aristocratic sect that comprised the priesthood, became well-defined religious parties.
Shin, in full Jōdo Shinshū, (Japanese: "True Pure Land sect"), the largest of the popular Japanese Buddhist Pure Land sects.
Be sure to include different sects and popular religious practices.
"If we insist on pursuing our past policies and ignore the popular support, our faction will become isolated like a sect," Mr. Mohebian said.
