Sentence examples for sectarian movement from inspiring English sources

Shangqing, ( Chinese: "Highest Purity" or "Supreme Clarity") Wade-Giles romanization Shang-ch'ing, important early sectarian movement associated with the emergence of Daoism during the southern Six Dynasties period (220 589 ce).

Sometime before 210 Tertullian left the orthodox church to join a new prophetic sectarian movement known as Montanism (founded by the 2nd-century Phrygian prophet Montanus), which had spread from Asia Minor to Africa.

Pancharatra, early Hindu religious movement whose members worshiped the deified sage Narayana (who came to be identified with Lord Vishnu) and, in merger with the Bhagavata sect, formed the earliest sectarian movement within Hinduism.

Among the most-pressing concerns in Jonathan's first full term as president was the ongoing threat presented by Boko Haram, an Islamic sectarian movement founded in 2002 in northeastern Nigeria; the group claimed to want to end the corruption and injustice in the country and impose Sharīʿah, or Islamic law.

Boko Haram, ( Hausa: "Westernization Is Sacrilege") byname of Jamāʿat Ahl al-Sunna lil-Daʿawah wa al-Jihād (Arabic: "Association of the People of the Sunnah for Preaching and Jihad"), Islamic sectarian movement, founded in 2002 by Muhammed Yusuf in northeastern Nigeria, that since 2009 has carried out assassinations and large-scale acts of violence in that country.

At the very beginning of the revolution, Kurds were indeed reluctant to participate, knowing that this might result in exceptional victimisation (as happened following the 2004 Kurdish uprising) or that they could be used by the regime to delegitimise the revolution as a separatist, sectarian movement.

And unlike small, intense sectarian movements, denominations do not consider friendly cooperation with one another a betrayal of doctrinal purity.

In Jainism and Buddhism, arising within Brahmanism as nontheistic sectarian movements, the Brahman priesthood was sublimated and the Vedic caste and sacrifice eliminated.

The Sheikh had even less faith in the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, which he called a collection of "sectarian movements" brought to power by American folly.

Since the emergence of the White Lotus Society in the 13th century, ordinary Chinese, particularly women and the poor, have found solace in sectarian movements whose features have remained consistent, Ownby argues.

The proper appraisal of the early Mahayana is even further complicated by the fact that most reconstructions have been heavily influenced by the agendas of modern sectarian movements and that the scriptures most valued by later groups are not necessarily the texts that best represent the movement in its formative period.