English > sect: 2 senses > noun 1, group| Meaning | A subdivision of a larger / larger / larger / larger religious group. |
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| Synonyms | religious sect, religious order |
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| Parts | convent | A community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together |
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| Narrower | Abecedarian | A 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge |
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| Albigenses, Cathars, Cathari | A Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries |
| Amish sect | An orthodox Anabaptist sect separated from the Mennonites in late 17th century |
| Hare Krishna, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON | A religious sect founded in the United States in 1966 |
| Haredi | Any of several sects of Orthodox Judaism that reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel |
| High Church, High Anglican Church | A group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority) |
| Jainism | sect founded in the 6th century BC as a revolt against Hinduism |
| Karaites | A Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud |
| Kokka Shinto, Kokka | The branch of Shinto recognized as the official state religion of Japan |
| Religious Society of Friends, Society of Friends, Quakers | A Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660 |
| Shakers, United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing | A celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States |
| Shaktism, Saktism | A Hindu sect worshiping Shakti |
| Shiah, Shia, Shiah Islam | One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam |
| Shivaism, Sivaism | A Hindu sect worshiping Shiva |
| Shuha Shinto, Shua | Any branch of Shinto other than Kokka |
| Sunni, Sunni Islam | One of the two main branches of orthodox Islam |
| Taoism | A Chinese sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but incorporating pantheism and sorcery in addition to Taoism |
| Vaishnavism, Vaisnavism | Hindu sect worshiping of Vishnu |
| Waldenses, Vaudois | A Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century |
| Zurvanism | A Zoroastrian sect that claims Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe |
| brethren | (plural) the lay members of a male religious order |
| order, monastic order | A group of person living under a religious rule |
| sisterhood | A religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns) |
| Broader | religion, faith, organized religion | An institution to express belief in a divine power |
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| Spanish | culto, orden religiosa, secta |
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| Catalan | orde, secta |
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| Adjectives | sectarian | belonging to or characteristic of a sect |
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| sectarian | of or relating to or characteristic of a sect or sects |
