a sect or sects

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• Sect and Sects — • Etymology and meaning of the word sect Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Sect and Sects     Sect and Sects     † …   Catholic encyclopedia

• sect — UK [sekt] / US noun [countable] Word forms sect : singular sect plural sects a religious group whose beliefs are different from the beliefs of an established religion, usually in a way that most people do not approve of …   English dictionary

• sect — sect, sectarianism The sociology of religion developed a model of religious organization which is referred to as the ‘church sect typology’. As originally formulated by Max Weber (The Sociology of Religion, 1922) and Ernst Troeltsch (The Social… …   Dictionary of sociology

• Sect Shinto — Sect Shinto, Shintoism revolving around the teachings a particular leader or group, with individual sects carrying out programs of religious education and worship. Sect Shinto evolved after the abolition of Shintoism as a state religion in Japan… …   Useful english dictionary

• Sect — In the sociology of religion a sect is generally a smaller religious or political group that has broken off from a larger group; for example from a large, well established religious group, like a denomination , usually due to a dispute about… …   Wikipedia

• SECTS, MINOR — In addition to the main sects which existed during the period of the Second Temple and after, such as the pharisees , the sadducees , the essenes , the therapeutae and the dead sea sects , the sources mention a number of others. As will be noted …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• Sect (World of Darkness) — articleissues notable=June 2008 primarysources=June 2008In the role playing games and books based on the World of Darkness setting, by White Wolf Game Studio, a sect is a large organization of vampires with a leadership, rules and goals, that (at …   Wikipedia

• Sect of Skhariya the Jew — Skariya the Jew is also the name used by Ivan III of Muscovy to refer to Zacharias de Ghisolfi. The Sect of Skhariya the Jew, much more commonly known as the Heresy of the Judaizers or Zhidovstvuyushchiye , was a sect that appeared in Novgorod… …   Wikipedia

• sect — [[t]se̱kt[/t]] sects N COUNT A sect is a group of people that has separated from a larger group and has a particular set of religious or political beliefs …   English dictionary

• sects — plural of sect …   Useful english dictionary

• -sects — present third singular of sect …   Useful english dictionary