Citations:sects

English citations of sects

a group following a specific ideal or a leader

• 1984, Steven M. Tipton, Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 104:

  Zen Center welcomes visitors, guests, and prospective students, but it does not engage in systematic institutional or network recruiting of new members, unlike the Christian sect and Erhard Seminars Training.

• 1995, Flo Conway, Jim Siegelman, Snapping: America's Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, Stillpoint Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 161:

  Every person who is not a fellow member, and every social, religious and political institution that lies outside the sect's domain, is portrayed as a representative of Satan's world. In our research, we found that Moonies and members of many Christian sects with similar religious and political doctrines often focus on such beliefs to the exclusion of all other thought.

• 1995, Stuart A. Wright, Armageddon in Waco: Critical Perspectives on the Branch Davidian Conflict, University Of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 207:

  Peoples Temple and the Branch Davidians both approximated the 'apocalyptic sect' as an ideal type. In such sects the end of the world is taken as a central tenet.

• 1996, John Ankerberg, John Weldon, Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 216:

  There are scores of modern religious cults and sects that have been influenced by Hinduism to varying degrees. Werner Erhard, founder of 'Landmark Education's 'The Forum',' and 'est' seminars, which have about 700,000 graduates, was influenced by Hinduism through Swami Muktananda, one of Erhard's principal gurus.

• 1998, Mary McCormick Maaga, Hearing the Voices of Jonestown, Syracuse University Press, →ISBN, page 75:

  The Indiana Peoples Temple was essentially a sect, which was joined by new religious movement members in California, which then recruited black church members as it focused its ministry on the residents of urban California.

• 1999, R. C. S. Trahair, Utopias and Utopians: An Historical Dictionary, Greenwood, →ISBN, page 47:

  Branch Davidians are a modern religious sect that claims to be an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The church renounced any connection with the sect in the 1930s.

• M. Kienholz (1999) Police Files the Spokane Experience 1853-1995: Personal & Historical Accounts by a Career Staffer, Arthur H Clark, →ISBN, page 273: “Observers of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple noted that Jones' socialist sect did not lose non-profit status or receive reams of negative publicity until the massacre at Guyana occurred.”

• 2000, Philip Jenkins, Mystics and Messiahs : Cults and New Religions in American History, London: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180:

  Another potent element of the new cult milieu was the therapy sect, which offered believers the chance to achieve their full human potential through personal growth and self-actualization by taking total responsibility for one's actions. The prototypical movement of this kind was est (Erhard Seminar Training), in which intense and often grueling sessions forced followers to confront a new view of reality.

• 2000, Walter Laqueur, The New Terrorism: Fanaticism and the Arms of Mass Destruction, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 240:

  There is an interesting class difference to be found among these apocalyptic sects. The victims at Waco were predominantly from the lower class, as was true of Jonestown. The Heaven's Gate believers, on the other hand, were on the whole from the middle class.

• 2000, John R. Hall, Philip D. Schuyler, Sylvaine Trinh, Apocalypse Observed: Religious Movements and Violence in North America, Europe and Japan, Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:

  Like Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians approximated the 'apocalyptic sect' as an ideal type.

• 2001, Amy E. Seham, Whose Improv is it Anyway?: Beyond Second City, University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 83:

  New Age religions, televangelism and fundamentalist religious sects, and 'self-religionist' or self-actualization movements such as est (Erhard Seminars Training) and Scientology emerged to fill the empty place of any unifying or collective belief system for many Americans in the '80s.

• 2001, Philip H. Melling, Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 193:

  To read the website of the Heaven's Gate sect is to enter a world of eternal promise. Among those who are going home for good, there is only 'joy', 'the rapture of the saved', the blissful prophecy of the 'Talmudic sages'.

• 2003, David Chidester, Salvation and Suicide: Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and Jonestown, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page xvii:

  Jonestown was at heart a religious community, whether classified as a new religious movement, a cult, a sect, or a church.

• 2005 November 8, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, International Religious Freedom Report 2005 - Austria‎^[1], United States Department of State:

  The vast majority of groups termed 'sects' by the Government are small organizations with fewer than 100 members. Among the larger groups is the Church of Scientology, with between 5,000 and 6,000 members, and the Unification Church, with approximately 700 adherents throughout the country. Other groups found in the country include Divine Light Mission, Eckankar, Hare Krishna, the Holosophic community, the Osho movement, Sahaja Yoga, Sai Baba, Sri Chinmoy, Transcendental Meditation, Landmark Education, the Center for Experimental Society Formation, Fiat Lux, Universal Life, and The Family.

• 2006, Jeffrey B. Bumgarner, Federal Agents: The Growth of Federal Law Enforcement in America, Praeger, →ISBN, page 87:

  The Branch Davidians were a separatist, communal sect of the Seventh Day Adventists that had occupied several buildings and some acreage outside of Waco,Texas. David Koresh, the sect's leader,preached an apocalyptic message of a showdown with government forces.

• 2007, Dave Jiang, My Fortunate Brain Tumor from God, Xulon Press, →ISBN, page 218:

  I remembered the devotion of those belonging to the Manson 'Family' or the 'People's Temple' of Jim Jones or the Branch Davidian Sect or the 'Heaven's Gate' sect of Marshall Applewhite. It wasn't how much the 'Heaven's Gate' believers believed that there was a spaceship hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet, waiting to take them to paradise; only the actual existence of such a spaceship really mattered.

• 2008, Esther Urdang, Human Behavior in the Social Environment: Interweaving the Inner and Outer Worlds, Routledge, →ISBN, The Heaven's Gate Sect, pages 252–253:

  The Heaven's Gate sect received national attention in the spring of 1997, when its thirty-nine members committed suicide in Southern California.

• 2008, Ballard Campbell, Disasters, Accidents, and Crises in American History: A Reference Guide to the Nation's Most Catastrophic Events, Facts on File, →ISBN, page 397:

  The Branch Davidians are an offshoot of the Davidians, a religious sect that had split from the Seventh-Day Adventists in the 1930s.

• 2009, Anthony B. Pinn, African American Religious Cultures, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 314:

  The Peoples Temple movement began in the 1950s as an independent Pentecostal congregation of white and black working-class families ... Some argue it was initially a Christian sect that then became a new religious movement.

• 2010, David Hicks, Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion, AltaMira Press, →ISBN, page 460:

  As with its disciplinary practices and its round of daily life, the community of goods in the Peoples Temple at Jonestown emphasizes its similarities to otherworldly sects—both the contemporary ones labeled 'cults' by their detractors, and historical examples which are often revered in retrospect by contemporary religious culture.

• 2010, Michael Largo, God's Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man's Eternal Search for the Divine, William Morrow Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 183:

  Werner Erhard ... had an awakening while driving over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco in 1971. Although previously employed as a used-car salesman, he had studied Scientology, Zen Buddhism, and many of the sects that had sprung up in the 1960s, though wasn't expecting the epiphany he received.

• 2010, Richard T. Schaefer, William W. Zellner, Extraordinary Groups: An Examination of Unconventional Lifestyles, Worth Publishers, →ISBN, page 30:

  Despite being a relatively new organization, the Church of Scientology already has had to denounce splinter groups, including sects that claim to practice Dianetics complete with E-Meters independent of the Church.