"They know your sect by your family name," he said.
Basava helped to spread the Lingayat sect by teaching and by dispersing funds to Lingayat guilds.
For this, they have often been branded as devil worshipers, which has justified historical oppression of the sect by extremist Muslims.
This resulted in official recognition of the sect by the dynasty; the celestial masters in turn expressed their spiritual approbation of the Wei's mandate to replace the Han.
(Mr. Weiner once aided the Munkacs sect by getting the State Department to help secure Jewish grave sites in the town of Munkacz, Ukraine).
W. Deen Muhammad's movement of African-American Muslims far overshadows, in numbers and in influence, Louis Farrakhan's Nation of Islam, which is considered a heretical sect by most mainstream Muslims.
By Sylvia Coburn and Russell Maloney The New Yorker, July 4 , 1936P. 7 A lady used to employ a colored maid named Emma, who is known in Father Divine's sect by the heavenly name of So Sweet.
But a statement issued on behalf of women in the sect by a local Belz women's organisation said they felt "extremely privileged and valued to be part of a community where the highest standards of refinement, morality and dignity are respected".
I can best describe the political character of the sect by telling you that the authorities in Dacca have indicted Jamaat's Bangladeshi leaders on charges that they aided and abetted the Pakistani army's crimes against humanity during the Bangladesh war of independence.
In a fragmented polity of a state like Gujarat, where social divisions of religion exist as an obvious limitation, overcoming and providing communal economic empowerment across geographical and class barrier in Chilea community (a Muslim sect), by sharing profit with the community, is deprived by existing political economy of the state.
1. 'Of A Sect By Myself.' In a letter dated June 25 , 1819 Jefferson summarized his religious beliefs this way: "I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know".
