CULTS AND SECTS. The terms cult and sect are regarded as stereotype-loaded terms that are associated with new or unpopular religious movements, and these terms are thus mostly avoided by scholars. They are, however, widely used by the media and by...

In the sociology of religion a sect is generally a small 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 doctrinal...

JOY OF SECTS Susan Howe's poems radiate the New World's millenarian spirit MY EMILY DICKINSON BY SUSAN HOWE, PREFACE BY ELIOT WEINBERGER NEW YORK: NEW DIRECTIONS, 160 PAGES. $15. SOULS OF THE LABADIE TRACT BY SUSAN HOWE NEW YORK: NEW DIRECTIONS. 144...

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Dressed in white and spattered in blood, members of the tiny Samaritan sect gathered until the early hours of Tuesday for one of the Holy Land's most colorful religious ceremonies _ the nighttime Passover sacrifice.The entire Samaritan community, which totals just over 700 people, was...

A polygamous sect leader on Friday refused to divulge the location of an ex-follower's wife and child, an attorney said.Warren Jeffs was questioned by attorneys for Wendell Musser in the Washington County jail, but provided no substantive information, attorney Roger Hoole said."He pulled out a...