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Islam in France could drive more Muslims to radical sects.
Many Christian sects regarded sex as sinful, impure, even dirty.
Hinduism is an amorphous religion, with many schools and sects.
Before, religious sects could control the dissemination of ideas. Right.
They are complicated and come from different sects and practices.
In other words, unlike the early Christians, who were divided into sects primarily through theological disputes about the nature of Christ, early Muslims were divided into sects over political disputes about who should rule them.
Some have been snatched from orphanages or kidnapped from minority sects.
The two sects are similar but Mennonites are far more conservative.
Until the 7th century CE, there were sects that worshiped Lilith.
It's just some of the radical sects and stuff like that.
I thought that was extremely discriminatory to other sects of Islam.
But their apostles split and spread, rebranding themselves into new sects.
The government and its leaders must make alliances with rival sects.
After the Protestant Reformation, many Protestant sects kept All Saints Day.
NOVELS ABOUT life in ultra-religious sects usually focus on frustration.
Dissident sects like the Cathars were denounced as heretics and eventually crushed.
Members of religious sects other than the Jacobites are subject to death.
It comprised more than two dozen extremist religious parties from various sects.
That would be true if you brought all the different sects together.
"Syria is a small country with overlapping ethnicities and sects," said Alhamadee.
I legitimately don't understand that about certain sub-sects of metal, too.
Experts say most Christian sects in South Korea followed a similar script.
Like other large religious sects in India, Dera Sacha Sauda wields power.
And the race has caused even more infighting among other GOP sects.
The ruling Baath party claims to represent all of Syria's religions and sects.
They're an advantage to the states, sects and other organizations that protect them.
Some sects and breakaway groups, however, follow the early doctrine of plural marriage.
It validates newly established Pentecostal sects offering bizarre "cures" for same-sex attraction.
Some scholars tell us that over twenty thousand Protestant sects can be distinguished.
This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations.
Government posts and public-sector jobs are also divvied up among the sects.
Many, Kim said, sought "internal peace" and these Christian sects filled the void.
But none of the five sects could agree on who was cloned first.
The system divides spoils and patronage among various religious sects and political parties.
The merchandise on hand caters to all different sects of magic and Santeria.
Rabbi Shteinman was widely respected and listened to by the leaders of Hasidic sects based in Israel, including Viznitz and Ger, said Yosef Rapaport, a media consultant for Agudath Israel of America, the umbrella group for ultra-Orthodox sects and organizations.
Bayle stressed the pacifying effect of having many sects, none strong enough to dominate.
And something like Nimr's execution is sure to only exacerbate differences between the sects.
Berri has accused Aoun of exceeding his powers at the expense of other sects.
But the battle over legal ownership of areas claimed by both sects is intractable.
Sects of this movement, such as the "antifa," openly employ violence to suppress speech.
Under that system, cabinet positions are divvied up proportionally to the country's various sects.
They make up most of the country's 18 officially recognized sects, not just two.
"In the Christian faith, there are divisions with all the sects," Mr. White said.
The administration must also conform with sectarian power-sharing quotas among Christian and Muslim sects.
Meanwhile, the country witnessed an explosion of Christian sects and offshoots, from Methodists to Mormons.
And sectarianism doesn't just stop at Ahmadi, it also affects Shia and other Muslims sects.
Other sects of Christianity, like Protestantism and Lutheranism, sometimes use their own rosary prayers, too.
Online spaces host casual instances of Islamophobia that make extremist sects of the internet possible.
Iran and Saudi Arabia, led by regimes representing opposing Islamic sects, already are bitter rivals.
They should resist fighting "deviant sects" like Shias, and "avoid meddling" with non-Muslim minorities.
People from Beirut to Baghdad are in the streets clamoring for nations to replace sects.
The Fateh Pur shrine is open to all sects of Islam to attend for worship.
Lansdale's most important accomplishment was helping Diem win the so-called battle of the sects.
Now, it's acceptable among some ring-wing sects to pick the Kremlin over the Democrats.
"This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations," he said.
Mosul, however, is a far larger city with a populace made up of many sects.
These are small sects, so I'm not saying it's the way to go for everyone.
In New Haven, pizza is something akin to a religion, and there are different sects.
But Hasidic sects and ultra-Orthodox Jews prefer to see certifications from their own tribes.
"This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations," Trump said.
It was a well-connected congregation with a cemetery open to different sects and faiths.
Ghana has 700 Christian sects, according to the World Christian Database, and around 71,000 individual congregations.
"This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations," the president said.
Parliament seats are divided evenly between Muslims and Christians, and further subdivided among their various sects.
" Instead, Trump said: "This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations.
"This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations," Trump told them.
White-robed apostolic sects worship in fields and by the roadside; wealthier folk attend gleaming megachurches.
As the violence escalated, they retreated into their sects and gradually redefined each other as enemies.
Jubbouri called for an end to a governing system which allocates top posts based on sects.
But intolerance of internal dissidents — Catholics, Jews, rival Protestant sects — continued even into the 19th century.
The fourth and fifth centuries saw Christians quarrel over theological matters and divide into numerous sects.
Infighting in Lebanon: Antigovernment protesters in recent months have drawn in people from all religious sects.
Lebanon is governed according to a complex power-sharing system among the country's 18 recognized sects.
Seats in Parliament are divided equally among Muslims and Christians, then further subdivided among different sects.
The Unified Church, founded as an umbrella organization for various Buddhist sects in 22006, was banned.
Rizvi's descriptions of historical sects of Islam and their conflicts with one another are especially illuminating.
Sunni and Shia are sects of Islam, but have been in conflict since the Prophet's death.
There are as many contenders for IS's mantle as there are sects and ethnicities in northern Iraq.
The schism between the two sects dates back 1,400 years, following the death of the Prophet Mohammed.
For all that it is dysfunctional, Lebanon has limped along thanks to the pragmatism of its sects.
It said Bahrainis of different sects, including Shi'ites, served as government officials, judges, diplomats and other professions.
" In Riyadh, Trump said, "This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations.
For centuries, the two main coexisting sects of Islam practiced in Yemen were the Zaidis and Shafi'is.
This was critical as he sought to thread his way through a maze of sects and sides.
And, in Brooklyn and Washington, warring Muslim sects traded accusations in the wake of shootings and deaths.
There were four or five languages spoken, she said, plus three religions and two sects of Islam.
The second was sheer magnitude: history had known many other millenarian sects, but not on this scale.
This is significant, observers say — as is the apparent solidarity across sects, cities, age groups and religions.
The demonstrations are massive, across all regions, across all sects, and against all political parties (no exceptions).
Sects like Milah Abraham are criticized by Muslim councils and targeted by the police for promoting heresies.
Our Iraqi partner unit was made up of mixed sects but, like the country, was mostly Shia.
Until now, Mr. Lee's Shincheonji has been one of the fastest-growing religious sects in South Korea.
The Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam encompass a wide spectrum of doctrine, opinion and schools of thought.
Yesteryear's Shia supremacists these days promise to cherish the country's diversity, and recruit other sects to their ranks.
Brutal battles have pitted Catholics that kneel in prayer against Protestant sects that stood before the same God.
Sects, ethnicities and religions distinguished themselves from others and signalled membership of their groups through dress and headgear.
It creates a culture among people aimed at reinforcing social relationships between different sects away from any discrimination.
Diem neutralized the religious sects by the expedient of having Lansdale use C.I.A. funds to buy them off.
It's one of the last remaining Muslim sects in India where FGM is still known to be practiced.
Nor did he create the synagogues, yeshivas, kosher certification enterprises and other institutions that the larger sects possess.
The Anglicans came, too; those of England's church-state establishment who oppressed other sects enjoyed freedom in Pennsylvania.
Seats in parliament are divided equally among Muslims and Christians, then further partitioned among 18 officially recognized sects.
It was also linked to the centuries-long ideological fight between two sects of Islam: Shiite and Sunni.
Politics, faith and Lebanon's complicated demographics play a role too, in this country with 123 officially recognized sects.
They are under attack from other sects and have little to fall back on politically, despite their numbers.
Hussein's 7th-century death led to a split between Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims that still divides the sects today.
But sects that once shared the same streets in new towns built in the 1980s are now moving apart.
Several denominations have splintered off from the mainstream church over the years, including a number of controversial polygamous sects.
Jews from Orthodox sects, from which Mr Ouanounou hails, only consider someone dead when his heart and breathing cease.
It's this behavior that provides a path toward radicalization, and makes extremist sects of the internet able to thrive.
Observant Jews, particularly those belonging to Orthodox sects, cannot carry or push anything outside the home on the Sabbath.
Some are Chaldean Christians or members of oppressed Muslim sects and fear being persecuted, tortured or killed if returned.
These sects and their unique practices were particularly appealing to South Koreans in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Various longstanding anti-vaccine movements persist there, and some conservative Protestant sects in Europe believe vaccination subverts God's will.
Other Protestant sects -- the Baptists, Methodists and African Methodist Episcopalians -- allowed women to preach but refused to ordain them.
This particular episode centers on a man named Baruch who has just left one of Brooklyn's ultra-­Orthodox sects.
They would be responsible for securing the city, reinstalling law and order and ensuring basic services for all sects.
Some sects within the movement disdain modern white Jews, experts say, claiming the mantle of the religion for themselves.
Both fathers try to "rid" their new sons of the practices they were taught as followers of the contrasting sects.
As is often the case with full moons, October's goes by several names in different sects of nature-based faiths.
It's one of the poorest towns in America—all Skverer Jews, one of the most extreme sects of Hasidic Jews.
Pentecostals are poorer, blacker, less educated and younger than the average Brazilian, in contrast with traditional Protestant sects like Lutheranism.
Yet some cultures and sects believe the practice makes for better wives by making girls more acceptable in their communities.
He must still redress a religiously-based education system and uproot a radical ideology which demonises other religions and sects.
But its violent rule has also antagonized Sunnis, raising hope for reconciliation among Iraq's sects after the group is defeated.
Ironically, if he does run, not having amassed a voting record in Washington could boost his appeal across party sects.
Shias and Sunnis — two sects of Islam usually at odds — are now fighting and painting for the same basic rights.
Conservative sects of Islam have long prospered in both states, routinely fueling debates about the role of religion in government.
Traditions and customs for the Islamic New year vary for Shia and Sunni Muslims, the two major sects of Islam.
The term gained some traction as it was applied to new North American religious and political sects through the 1970s.
The most successful and enduring Christian communalist sects were led by individuals who claimed messianic stature and a God-given mission.
These sects were strange to outsiders — as strange, perhaps, as the apostolic communes were to the pagans of the Roman Empire.
The cabinet encompasses most sides of the country's political spectrum and all of its religious sects, making any agreement a challenge.
Local officials said Muslims from both the Shiite and Sunni sects visit the shrine, which is devoted to a Sufi saint.
Most European states subsidise their historically dominant Christian denominations, directly or indirectly, while also leaving the sects' religious masters relatively autonomous.
The Druze sect is allocated eight of the 128 seats in parliament, which are divided evenly between Christian and Muslim sects.
It also touches on the balance of power between their sects in a system that shares government participation among religious groups.
Popular in certain Orthodox and Hasidic sects, upsherin involves waiting until a boy turns three before he gets his first haircut.
As early as 2004, the prime minister at the time, Bajram Rexhepi, tried to introduce a law to ban extremist sects.
Public sector employment is one of the means used by Lebanese politicians from various religious sects to shore up their support.
A 2014 essay by Rebecca Hains cites the original Powerpuff Girls as a problematic symptom feminist sects that revolve around appearence.
"The Secret Oral Teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects," by Alexandra David-Neel and Lama Yongden, is always on my night stand.
A tax on WhatsApp calls opens the floodgates of anger over corruption and Lebanese from all sects pour into the streets.
The seeker seeks alone, there's no single church, instead a dizzying variety of sects and rituals and almost nothing is taboo.
When civil war broke out in 1975, the political imbalance prompted each of the major sects to form its own militias.
Lebanon's Christians historically had a political and social edge over other sects; Sunnis came in second, and Shiites a distant third.
We only occasionally saw the large communities of Mennonite and Mormon sects that had established communities in Chihuahua and Sonora states.
Given the strong international connections of all Lebanon's sects and factions, any flare-up there will be felt in many other locations.
She worked with organizations like Holding Out Hands, which works with those who've fled the FLDS and other religious sects in Utah.
Most Kurds are Sunni Muslims, although not exclusively, and Kurds, depending on the region, are also Shiite Muslims, Christians, and other sects.
And while a minority of Mormons do place a heavy emphasis on abortion, the church hierarchy does not, unlike various Baptist sects.
Of course, there are about as many books on the market as there are different sects and forms of Paganism and Wicca.
For example polygamous marriages, temporary marriages amongst Shia Muslims and nowadays young Muslims of all sects…[and] marriages between adults and children.
In his show at Garvey Simon Art Access, Timothy Hursley presents photographic investigations into Southern funeral homes, Mormon sects, and empty brothels.
The dominant Muslim sects — Sunni and Shia — have little liking for the Kurds, who are a different ethnic and religious entity altogether.
The United Nations should build on that framework to foster greater dialogue between religions and sects to counter this dangerous medieval fanaticism.
He sees no end soon, predicting even stronger strains of Islamic extremism as nations, sects, tribes, terror groups and generations all jostle.
Birthed in Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism's stern intolerance denigrates not only those who don't believe in Islam but other Muslim sects as well.
People from all sects and regions of Lebanon rallied to demand the end of the sectarian system and accountability for corrupt politicians.
That defeats the point of the change, since minority Muslim sects and secularists are among the most persecuted groups in those countries.
The day after her wedding, Malky went to her parents' house, and her mother shaved her head, a custom in some sects.
Zakia and Ali, the journalist Rod Nordland's Afghan Romeo and Juliet, are Tajik and Hazara, Sunni and Shia, disparate ethnicities and rived sects.
When asked which sects they belonged to, Ms. Hammoud and her friend, Noor Maanaki, 21, implored a reporter not to identify their affiliations.
Among certain sects of Paganisn, it is believed that the borders between the living and the dead blur around this time of year.
Moreover, Lebanese family law varies by religion, and the country's various Christian, Muslim, and Druze sects all oversee their own courts and law.
In many nations, certain sects of religions – from Judaism to Islam to Taoism — frown upon separating the bodies of the dead into parts.
His descendants became Shiite Muslims, while the forces that defeated him evolved into the Sunnis, establishing the two main sects of Islam today.
But the families from Hasidic sects based in Brooklyn say the mostly black residents of the neighborhood welcomed them when they settled in.
Lebanon's consociational political structure — which seeks to balance the competing interests of 18 religious sects — makes it uniquely vulnerable to exploitation by outsiders.
Experts on South Korean religious sects and former members of the church said its practices made its members unusually vulnerable to contagious diseases.
Though Ahmadi beliefs are strongly rooted in Islam, other sects consider them heretical, and they are declared non-Muslims under the Pakistani Constitution.
He said this was a pity because many of the 600 new sects in Indonesia's history had made its religious landscape more vibrant.
Most of the characters they met were in the Owl, Serpent, and Squirrel sects, loosely organized around academic disciplines—STEM, performance, and humanities, respectively.
He joined up with communist and secular parties, wooed Sunnis by praying in their mosques and published a plan for reconciliation between Islam's sects.
The new Protestant sects' insistence that they be free to practise their faith did not extend to others—notably Catholics—seeking to practise theirs.
In 2014, rebranded as Islamic State (IS), it swept through large parts of Iraq and Syria using untrammelled violence and persecution of opposing sects.
We are dealing with religious sects willing to blow up each other's mosques, attack each other's weddings and even disrupt each other's funeral processions.
Potts and his colleagues note that in this region, abortion was both permitted and condemned at the same time by different religions or sects.
It's in the interest not only of Yazidi victims but of all Iraqis because all sects of Iraq have been victims of ISIS violence.
Pupils would dash down the exposed steps at the school, which was caught on the boundary between two warring sects, hoping to reach safety.
Standing in their way are warring sects of double-crossing vampires; creepy, elaborate puzzle rooms; and the constant threat of terror around every corner.
Many Lebanese, even those angry about endemic corruption, fear that change could be destabilizing and feel compelled to vote for their sects' traditional leaders.
"We were Sunni, but our culture, our traditions were a mixture of Shia and Barelvi and Deobandi," Mr. Shah said, referring to Muslim sects.
He is venerated by large sects like the Satmar and Viznitz Hasidim as the spiritual leader who established Hasidic culture and philosophy in Hungary.
However, they are attending as part of a larger group representing all sects of the Afghan society rather than as an official government delegation.
The country maintains a power-sharing system among its many religious sects that fought a war between 1975 and 1990 which included Palestinian factions.
Mirvis's story is less stark than recent memoirs of leaving ultra-Orthodox sects; Modern Orthodoxy, by definition, allows more mingling with the outside world.
America has long been a hothouse of apocalyptic sects and self-proclaimed saviors, "overrun with messiahs," the Methodist minister Charles Ferguson wrote in 1928.
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai had called the summit which gathered patriarchs of Lebanon's many Christian sects, according to state news agency NNA.
Shincheonji worshipers have been noted for their secrecy, often hiding their membership even to their parents, said former members and experts on religious sects.
The country maintains a power-sharing system among its many religious sects that fought a war between 1975 and 1990 that included Palestinian factions.
As Ms Richlin discovered in Washington, there was no huge difference between her informants who attended charismatic churches and those who followed other sects.
What set the Quakers apart from other evangelical sects was their rejection of conventional modes of address — above all, their peculiar use of pronouns.
That has triggered an exodus among people of both faiths, especially among minority sects - like Botros' Syriac Orthodox community whose roots are in early Christianity.
The Fight Club author tells me he hung out with all manner of extremist sects while completing the novel, which hits the shelves May 1.
Iran and Saudi Arabia have long accused each other of sponsoring militias aligned to their competing sects of Islam in conflicts across the Middle East.
But deep distrust between the country's two dominant sects, which flared into civil war after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, prevented any meaningful cooperation.
" Another newsy passage from Trump's speech, via the Washington Post's Ashley Parker: "This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects or different civilizations.
Those who dare to advocate for the full legal equality of non-Muslims, women and disfavored Muslim sects are vulnerable to criminal punishment for blasphemy.
But coming out in support of LGBT rights in Lebanon's largely conservative communities, which include more than 17 religious sects, has produced some mixed results.
But more conservative sects are stricter about abiding by religious tenets around modesty and are less willing to add safety features that might draw attention.
While it is sometimes misunderstood as a sect of Islam, it is actually a broader style of worship that transcends sects, directing followers' attention inward.
Others followed suit: secularists, Turkish religious sects, women's rights groups, sexual minorities — any people who believed that their voices were being silenced by the regime.
Reinventions or fabrications of medieval sects proliferated: the Knights Templar, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (the habitat of Yeats), and various Rosicrucian orders.
Thus, unless the government considers different sects of Islam as minority religions, only non-Muslims would be eligible for a claim of religious-based persecution.
Tribal communities lived in sects and the familial aspect of that culture made learning martial arts a social function, learned within the confines of the group.
Shafran, who has met with former Hasidim, urges those who are disillusioned to consider other sects, noting that some may find one that is more suitable.
First, I slightly modified small things such as names of scriptures and priestly titles for the various Israelite religious sects, to make it more historically accurate.
Muslim-majority Bangladesh has seen a rise in Islamist violence in which liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have been targeted.
Yet some cultures and sects believe the practice makes for better wives by making girls more acceptable in their communities, thus improving their eligibility for marriage.
Not so: there are no neat lines in a region where ethnic groups and sects can change from one village or one street to the next.
Claiming more than 8.5 million members globally, the Witnesses comprise one of the most devout religious sects in the country, according to the Pew Research Center.
The nationalism surging in Europe is not the problem in the Arab world; rather, populations have retreated into greater reliance on sects, ethnic groups and militias.
Abadi has been praised for running on a pan-Iraqi, anti-sectarian platform, reaching out to Sunni neighbors like Saudi Arabia and working across religious sects.
President Michel Aoun has called the influx of mainly Sunni Syrian refugees an existential threat to Lebanon, which maintains a fragile balance between several religious sects.
Trying to revive that vision of Syria amid a war that has aggravated social fractures would involve reconciliation between political opponents, religious sects and economic classes.
The collection draws attention to the spiritual inspiration that gave rise to so many sects, as well as the slippage between mainstream and apparently transgressive beliefs.
Lebanon has 18 officially recognized religious groups, including various Christian and Muslim sects and the Druse, who split off from Islam about a thousand years ago.
The audacious idea that people from all races, ideologies and religious sects would check their hatreds at the door after becoming citizens is our sustaining narrative.
And the third aspect of this change was that across the Golden Horn, many neighborhoods had come under the influence of political Islam and fundamentalist sects.
"The new prime minister is going to form the same government based on sharing among sects, and this is what we've been demonstrating against for weeks."
Politically speaking, the BJP has long profited from driving a wedge between India's sects, with the aim of consolidating the Hindu vote in its own camp.
Even today, priests guard the entrance, turning away non-Hindus and some non-Indians from sects such as Hare Krishna, which is popular in the West.
Both are billionaires and generous donors to the various transhumanist sects, and without their munificence, it seems unlikely the movement's priests would be so richly appointed.
Games helped my small group of friends understand other each others' sects and connect deeper as people by giving us common ground and a shared hobby.
In Lebanon marriages and other matters of family law, such as divorce and inheritance, are left to the religious courts of 18 Muslim, Christian and other sects.
Yemen's population is comprised of roughly equal numbers of Shafii Sunnis and Zaydi Shias, inclusive sects whose followers once prayed side-by-side in the same mosques.
"Islamic State reads Turkish society very well and it knows to strike at the key pressure points," says Hilmi Demir, an expert on Muslim sects and radicalisation.
Today it is predominantly Muslim, with primarily Sunni but also Shiite populations, although Christian sects have made the area their home almost since the faith's earliest days.
Kurdish and Sunni politicians fear a new phase of turmoil, with sects and ethnic groups fighting for oil and land in areas where the militants once ruled.
The fear of educated women still holds sway; the Taliban, Boko Haram, and other extremist sects commit shocking acts of terror to prevent girls from attending school.
The vice-president-elect wants the country to adopt Islamic law and is keen to ban homosexual acts as well as some Muslim sects he considers heretical.
Ultra-Orthodox Hasidic sects typically see technology and electronics as doorways to destructive behavior and forbid their practitioners from having such things as television, smartphones, and computers.
According to Harold W. Attridge, PhD, professor of divinity at Yale University, immersion baptisms are most often seen in Adventist, Baptist, and Eastern Orthodox sects of Christianity.
To this, ISIS's theological rebuttal is a prophecy of Muhammad's that his community will eventually suffer downfall: There will be 73 sects but only one chosen sect.
Written in 1976, the drama centers on three radical sects during the tumultuous period in the seventeenth century between the toppling of the monarchy and the Restoration.
He advocated equality among Muslims of all sects, somewhat more grudgingly extending it to Christians and Jews, and legalistically referring to "constitutional protections" for atheists and agnostics.
In parliament, the 128 seats are split evenly - 64 for Christians and 64 for Muslims including Druze, with the two halves further divided among 11 total sects.
But in the United States, outbreaks in the last 19 years have been largely confined to schools, churches, religious sects or other groups with low immunization rates.
Since then, they have become the heads of political parties that largely represent individual sects and provide their constituents with perks, such as access to government jobs.
The entry of the Islamic State into Pakistan's crowded militant scene risks further attacks on Sufis because its ideology particularly includes punishment of minority sects and religions.
The South Asian country has seen a surge in Islamist violence in which liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have been targeted.
The Mormon Church has been accused of using their sexual abuse hotline to quiet victims and stave off potential lawsuitsMexico massacre unites Mormon sects, even their exiles
Hundreds of minorities remain in prison under these laws that, while presented to defend Islam, have been used to imprison Christians and even Muslims of minority sects.
The Black Hebrew Israelite movement has a complex history in the United States, with sects and branches splintering into dozens of branches over theological and leadership disputes.
At a time of polarization and strife in the U.S., The Westminster Dog Show is seeking to bring two sects of Americans together: dog people and cat people.
Monks in especially ascetic sects of buddhism attempted self-mummification for different ideological reasons, but the end goal was to die of starvation and remain preserved for eternity.
Sects and denominations reveal a lot about themselves in the way they treat music, as is pointed out by Stephen Marini, a professor of religion at Wellesley College.
At the same time, Islamic State has said it was behind the killings of Hindus, Buddhists and members of minority Muslim sects, which have accelerated in recent weeks.
Unlike, say, orthodox religious sects, cults serve no genuinely useful, longterm social purpose, and for that reason they represent cul-de-sacs of history doomed to ultimate extinction.
"This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations," Trump is expected to say in Riyadh, according to excerpts released by the White House.
And, they would soon reap prolific oil wealth to propagate their condemnation of the freedom that permitted a multitude of Islamic sects and schools across the Muslim world.
Bangladesh has suffered a wave of Islamist militant violence in recent months, including a series of bomb attacks on the mosques of minority Muslim sects and Hindu temples.
People of all ethnicities and sects have suffered and sacrificed together, not only for their own country, but to help provide security to the region and the world.
Fundamentalist protestants, a powerful political force in South Korea, are particularly distrustful of fringe Christian sects -- especially Shincheonji, which has been accused of poaching members of other churches.
Classical Hinduism is more a conglomeration of sects than a single religion; it has many ancient scriptures but no single, foundational text, like the Bible or the Quran.
"The C.H.P. candidate's entire rhetoric is built upon lies and taqiya," Mr. Erdogan said, referring to strategic deception employed by certain Islamic sects to infiltrate and target institutions.
He has researched the museum but has not yet visited in person, and he questioned the lack of representation of other religions and sects, including Mormonism and Islam.
But Lebanon is also home to 18 officially recognized religious sects, many of which oppose homosexuality on religious grounds and have associations that campaign against gay-friendly events.
Watchdog groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center have spent decades tracing the intricate ideological differences among various fringe sects: neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, Klansmen and so on.
Today, thirteen years after the ouster of Saddam Hussein, the government in Baghdad has still not found a formula to share power among its disparate sects and ethnicities.
Lebanon's political system awards posts and patronage spoils to politicians of different religious affiliations in order to maintain a balance among the country's 18 officially recognized religious sects.
In the region of New York City, New Jersey, and the Hudson Valley that Footsteps serves, 303,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews live in one of about five different sects.
The distinct, indigenous community — whose members belong to various ancient Christian sects — numbered nearly 20153 million prior to the Iraq War but has fallen precipitously to under 150,000 today.
Justice Black was quoting a line Thomas Jefferson used in 1802 to reassure a group of Baptists that, as president, he would protect the religious liberty of minority sects.
He explains that the local currency is pegged to the U.S. dollar and about how since the civil war political power is shared between Lebanon's 18 different religious sects.
Certain sects of super fans assign icons to the object of their affection: bees for Beyoncé's Beyhive, snakes to remind Taylor Swift that Kim Kardashian has all the receipts.
Rather than teach critical thinking, textbooks perpetuate ideas of obedience (the region's repressive governments like it that way) and, often, misunderstanding or even hatred of other faiths and sects.
While different sects of Islam celebrate the prophet's birthday on different days, the majority of Muslims celebrated his birth which coincidentally aligned with this year's only full moon supermoon.
"Lebanese politics has always been defined by competition and cooperation between sects," said Faysal Itani, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.
Starting from the premise of "Islam in danger," these creeds encourage hatred of Hindus, Christians, Jews, other Islamic sects and liberal secular Muslims, and a general loathing of modernity.
Cult activity dropped off after the 1990s, but it's once again growing in Russia, according to Alexander Dvorkin, a professor at St. Tikhon's Orthodox University who studies religious sects.
There are more than 20 mosques in the region, serving different sects and ethnicities, as well as countless cafes, restaurants and grocery stores that cater to Middle Eastern immigrants.
And when they do occur, they're more on a scale with the occasional persecutions of Christian or Buddhist sects — nothing close to the concerted repression campaign against the Uighur.
Before Manson, cults and religious organizations like Hare Krishna, Scientology, and other countercultural sects that arose in the mid-20th century were generally considered kooky but on the fringe.
" The official said that reconstruction of the heavily damaged city "will take a while" and reconciliation between the six ethnicities and sects that inhabit Mosul is going "to be tough.
In 2007, Aum Shinrikyo divided into two separate sects—and Aleph and Hikari no Wa. According to Japan's Justice Ministry, the groups still have faith in Asahara.[Bloomberg/CNN/BBC]
There were dozens of radical sects such as the Diggers, the Rangers and the Levellers, which spent their lives dreaming up schemes for abolishing private property, marriage and the state.
"They have a number of different beliefs to other mainstream Islamic sects," Dr. James Hodkinson, Associate Professor and researcher on Muslim communities in the UK at Warwick University, told Mashable.
While much of the Syrian leadership is drawn from an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, Islamic State espouses a radical version of Sunni Islam and considers other sects to be heretical.
Maybe the future will divide us into Disney households and Amazon households and Apple households, like religious sects that share a country but each maintain their own customs and mythologies.
The victims were all part of a community of breakaway Mormon sects who arrived in Mexico from the 1880s onwards to escape a clampdown on polygamy in the United States.
Most, though not all, DSA members look to be proud of its multitendency nature: There's no ideological or organizational line, unlike all the American left's many Trotskyist sects of old.
Meanwhile, like plenty of NYC politicians before him, Mayor de Blasio has long been accused of cozying up with the Orthodox Jewish community, whose various sects represent powerful voting blocs.
The two countries follow different sects of Islam and are locked in a regional struggle for power and influence that plays out across conflicts in Yemen and Syria, among others.
Alter didn't deny the central theory of the field at the time: that many of the texts had been stitched together, over many years, by various sects with various agendas.
In newspaper editorials and on social media, Western interventions are often blamed for the monstrosity of the Islamic State: They destroyed the barrier that local governments formed against extremist sects.
Lebanon's decision-making process is beholden to its system of consensus government, which divides leadership among the country's many religious sects, and is often blamed for political gridlock and patronage.
Many in Iran also accused Saudi Arabia of fomenting takfirism, a radical Sunni ideology espoused by groups such as Islamic State that regards Shi'ism and other Islamic sects as heretical.
There has been much bad blood between the different Muslim sects over the years, especially since the fall of Saddam Hussein unleashed a wave of violence that tore our country apart.
Because of the different paths the two sects took, Sunnis emphasize God's power in the material world, sometimes including the public and political realm, while Shiites value in martyrdom and sacrifice.
In analyzing the culture of bodies, food, diets — deftly, as always — she reckons with the fact that none of the as-yet-established sects of body positivity make sense for her.
Under Lebanon's power-sharing arrangement among its main sects, the presidency is reserved for a Maronite Christian, the premiership for a Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament for a Shi'ite.
Also, the one thing that really brought together the fractious sects and ethnic groups of Iraq --- the Kurds, the Shia and most of the Sunnis -- was their shared hatred of ISIS.
A general election in May led to months of wrangling between rival parties to form a coalition under a political system that parcels out government posts among Muslim and Christian sects.
While it's true that some conservative religious sects in America are growing, the overall trend hasn't supported the notion that stricture and rigid tradition are an effective antidote to declining religiosity.
The battle for Mosul, one of Iraq's largest cities, began last October and the outcome will likely determine whether Iraq's various sects can work together to keep the country from fracturing.
An umbrella group representing Japan's many Buddhist sects complained publicly after Amazon began offering obosan-bin — priest delivery — on its Japanese site last year, in partnership with a local start-up.
While some terrorists do identify as Salafi, Islamic sects that are ideologically opposed to Salafism — Naqshbandi Sufis and Shiites, among others — have engaged in violent jihad in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria.
Though she is considered a global icon of feminism, she has, on occasion, displeased progressive sects when she's expressed her beliefs about gender with candor and without using the latest terminology.
From its founding as an independent republic, Lebanon has walked a tightrope, not always successfully, with its Muslim and Christian populations making up most of the country's 18 officially recognized sects.
Aliza Bloch, a 51-year-old former high school principal, didn't just defeat the two-term incumbent, an ultra-Orthodox man who enjoyed the backing of rabbis from the dominant sects.
Lebanon, where people from different sects share offices, neighborhoods and businesses, and crop tops can outnumber hijabs in some Beirut neighborhoods, might seem like a natural inventor of the ladies' beach.
It matters to America that the risk of relapse is real, but so are Iraqis' chances to demonstrate that different sects and ethnicities can still live together in today's Middle East.
The vast majority of those in MetLife Stadium were Orthodox men, many from Hasidic and other ultra-Orthodox sects, and their dark suits and hats gave the stadium a charcoal cast.
The dysfunction is rooted in history: A deal to end a civil war nearly 20203 years ago divided power between 18 recognized religious sects, enriching political elites and effectively institutionalizing corruption.
The deal divided power between the nation's 18 recognized religious sects, effectively institutionalizing corruption, with each group able to dole out government jobs, contracts, favors and social services to its followers.
Their stand influenced his writings on freedom of conscience, which were to form the foundation for English liberalism, and the Toleration Act of 1689, which formalised the legal acceptance of nonconformist sects.
The entire week leading up to (but not including) Easter is known as Holy Week, and Christians of various sects observe it by reflecting on and even reenacting his suffering and death.
Other sects of Paganism and Wicca dedicate April 1 to gods besides Loki, from the Hindu goddess of destruction Kali to a mysterious deity known only as the God of chaos energy.
It would be closer to the truth to say that black cultural identity itself is the religion, a religion in which black Christians and black Muslims form two separate but noncompeting sects.
Last year, two foreigners and five bloggers were killed in Bangladesh amid a rise in Islamist violence in which members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have also been targeted.
But sports have a particularly political cast in Lebanon, whose 18 officially recognized religious sects and affiliated political parties live, work and socialize with each other, but never stop angling for advantage.
After decades of such kits being relegated to "survivalist" subcultures or extreme religious sects, you can now purchase versions created for weathering all sorts of storms at Costco or even Pottery Barn.
"We never had such a big crowd for funerals; people came from all ethnic groups and religious sects," said Qudos Yassenzada, a local elder on the committee that helped arrange the burials.
The sheer scope of the protests — spanning all age groups, religious sects and cities all over the country — make it unprecedented and more significant than perhaps any that have taken place before.
If it does, both sides are harmed — religions and sects battle each other for government cash, while the state finds itself forced to meddle in religious affairs, where it has no business.
But through the USCIRF and its research, American non-conformists are brought face to face with the fact that Russia's present rulers are no friends of dissident Christian sects or idiosyncratic religious groups.
Saad Hariri, a former prime minister and a dominant Sunni politician, led an establishment campaign that warned ominously that unknown forces wanted to "harm Beirut and break the parity" among the city's sects.
Shiites make up 15 percent to 30 percent of the population of Kuwait, a predominantly Sunni country, where members of both sects are known to live side by side with little apparent friction.
He discusses matters like the order of sacrifices in the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, the doctrinal arguments between different Jewish sects in the Roman Empire, and the varieties of Jewish mysticism, or Kabbalah.
From visits with healers, sages, shamans, and sects, to intimate personal rituals and experiences within the natural landscape, the documentary follows Abramović through a profound introspective journey of memories, pain, and past experiences.
Tibetan Buddhism has not always been peaceful, and once the Dalai Lama dies, his directives for nonviolent resistance may also be silenced, enabling the fractures of Tibetan Buddhists sects to reemerge from history.
Children with veiled and unveiled mothers wait in line at the City Center mall to whisper wish lists to the mall's Santa, and schoolchildren of all sects exchange Secret Santa gifts in class.
"Before the ancient stones of the Kotel there are no streams, sects and disputes, but one large community of individuals standing in prayer, together, in awe," he said in a statement on Sunday.
Although the 2015 protests were the first in quite a while to attract people from all the religious sects of Lebanon, the outcry itself was directed at some of the leaders, not all.
"This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects or different civilizations," Mr. Trump said in a cavernous hall filled with heads of state eager to find favor with the new president.
"They've been trying to defeat Hezbollah for years," said Ahmad, a butcher in Beirut who did not want his last name used because he did not want to offend customers of other sects.
As with all major religions, scholars have interpreted the Quran and other religious texts in myriad ways, and Muslims from different sects, regions and countries practice differently and with varying degrees of observance.
Last week, New Jersey officials said that investigators had found evidence linking them to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, a sprawling network of overlapping sects and theologies that has a black supremacist wing.
"I can't see the difference between a Hutu and a Tutsi, nor between a Sunni or a Shi'ite," he said, referring to two central African tribes and the two major sects of Islam.
Messianic sects like the Shakers, the Universal Friends, the Brotherhood of the New Life, the Koreshan Unity, and the Peace Mission were a consistent feature of the progressive Left of religious culture in America.
Observers say the sheer scope of the protests — spanning all age groups, religious sects and cities all over the country — make it unprecedented and more significant than perhaps any that have taken place before.
Militants have killed more than 30 people in Bangladesh since early last year, including atheist bloggers, liberal academics, gay-rights campaigners, foreign aid workers, and members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups.
Secretary Kerry was right to declare that ISIS kills Christians because they are Christians; Yezidis because they are Yezidis; and different Muslims sects because they believe in a different brand of Islam than them.
There are informal 'modesty police' in some sects of Judaism who have been known to throw stones at women and girls and heckle them for having skirts that are too short, or wearing pants.
But with the Haredi population already more than one million, or about 12 percent of the country, and still growing fast, the sects are starting to strike out on their own, Mr. Malach said.
Most millenarian sects that survive the death of the first generation of believers are those that preserve the hope of salvation by maintaining a strict separation — physical, ritual and intellectual — from the outside world.
Militants have killed more than 30 people since early last year, ranging from atheist bloggers and liberal academics to gay rights campaigners, foreign aid workers, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups.
The Muslim-majority nation of 160 million has seen a surge in violent attacks over the past few months in which members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups have also been targeted.
While a majority of the crowds come from the Shiite strongholds in eastern Baghdad that are predominantly loyal to Mr. al-Sadr, the cleric, many protesters were from different sects and were of different ethnicities.
The best way to eliminate retaliatory sectarian violence is to describe it as completely as possible—and work towards a unified Iraqi government that includes all the country's sects equally in a post-conflict state.
In 21959, three of them united in opposition to Diem: the Cao Dai and the Hoa Hao, religious sects, and the Binh Xuyen, an organized-crime society with a private army of ten thousand men.
But unnumbered "house churches" have existed in every setting where Christianity or sects within it are under threat, in fourteenth-century England, in modern China, and in the communities to whom Paul sent his letters.
Mr. Martin said that many "English," as the Amish call non-Amish people, make sweeping descriptions or assumptions of Amish and Mennonite people, especially since different sects vary widely in the strictness of their beliefs.
For Morris, that ministry set the tone for messianic sects that followed, from Ann Lee's community of Shakers and Father Divine's racially integrated communes in 1930s Harlem to the deadly Peoples Temple of Jim Jones.
Intensely religious, he often starts his days with morning prayers at Iglesia La Luz del Mundo (Light of the World Church), a Christian congregation that is part of one of Mexico's largest homegrown religious sects.
The proposed sea border is likely to be located in Britain, but analysts warn that the lack of a physical border target could lead to paramilitary sects attacking one another or members of the public.
Many months after May's election, Lebanese leaders are still at odds over how to parcel out cabinet positions among rival groups as mandated by a political system that shares government positions among Christian and Muslim sects.
Now that Islamic State has largely been removed from strategic areas, the ethnic and sectarian battle for land and influence that has dogged Iraq could complicate efforts to create harmony among its many sects and communities.
Officials like to tar Falun Gong with the same brush as apocalyptic cults such as America's Branch Davidians and Aum Shinrikyo in Japan, but it shows no sign of the violent extremes associated with those sects.
That requires a more normal sort of state: not just one with a fairer parliamentary balance, but also one based less on the sharing of spoils by sects, and one that has a monopoly of force.
We have a dizzying array of sects, with churches on every street corner, but these churches often feel no connection to people in other churches or those -- perhaps the majority -- with no religious affiliation at all.
The Gnostics, a collection of ancient religions and sects, found in a range of regions from the Middle East to China, also performed sex magic rituals, such as blood rituals and mantras to invoke sexual energy.
The polygamous enclaves in America run by breakaway Mormon sects are highly unstable—the old men in charge expel large numbers of young men for trivial offences so they can marry lots of young women themselves.
Moreover the 2016 vote has imported a theocratic principle into British politics, in which competing sects stalk the political landscape, warning heretics and unbelievers that "Brexit is our God, and Theresa/Boris/Jeremy is its prophet".
As Dixon suggested during a16z's annual innovation summit in November, he thinks it's time to start moving away from crypto as a kind of religion, with different factions and sects and rituals, and into the mainstream.
Foreign states have often regarded tiny Lebanon as a theater for their rivalry, exploiting the fissures between Muslim and Christian sects who have also courted outside intervention to help them in their struggles with each other.
Analysts have speculated that the execution of the four Shi'ites was partly to demonstrate to Saudi Arabia's majority Sunni Muslims that the government did not differentiate between political violence committed by members of the two sects.
And when it comes to Iraq, Tehran is always one step ahead of Washington and its allies because its relationships with groups from different sects and ethnicities give it a better understanding of the political terrain.
The Muslim-majority country of 160 million people has seen a surge in violent attacks over the past few months in which liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects, and other religious groups have been targeted.
" That's not to say that white Americans, Christians, don't also feel that in some degree, they have different sects, but I was always feeling like, "Oh, you guys have a different approach to this all together.
We still have republican forms in place, but we also have a kind of elected emperor who presides over our enduring color lines, our not-always-melted immigrants, our increasing mistrustful sects and tribes and classes.
Militants have killed more than 30 people in Bangladesh since early last year, with atheist bloggers, liberal academics, gay rights campaigners, foreign aid workers, members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups among the victims.
Even Tumblr users not part of these NSFW-centric communities, like those participating in fandoms or selling their art and graphics, told Business Insider their own sects of Tumblr were heavily impacted by the porn ban.
It's also because the conflict has aroused such bitter sectarian hatred that the idea of a pluralistic democracy in Syria, in which all sects share power and live side by side in peace, seems next to impossible.
Across more than 23 years of American history, schismatic Christian sects emerged in opposition to what they viewed as the apostasy of American Protestant churches that increasingly acted as handmaidens to a capitalist order based on exploitation.
Seven months after a general election, Lebanese leaders are still at odds on how to parcel out cabinet positions among rival groups according to a political system that shares out government positions among Christians and Muslim sects.
Already many within the opposition say the practice of evacuating Sunni Muslim fighters and their families from home towns where many sects once mixed was drawing new demographic frontiers that will only fuel the war's sectarian overtones.
Over centuries the ancient lake has drawn monks, hermits, small Jewish sects and early Christians, travelers seeking spiritual elation and tourists who enjoy floating in the highly-buoyant water and covering themselves with its mineral-rich mud.
In the first century, the rise of violence in certain Jewish sects was so intense that historian Flavius Josephus was compelled to call it the Fourth Philosophy, in addition to the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Essenes.
Diplomats are pushing the Iraqis to set up an interim governing council, similar to the one created after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2002, comprising Iraq's various ethnic groups, tribes, religious sects and sectors of society.
Abdel Rahman's only hint of anger came when he was asked his view of Shi'ite Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and he suggested Iraq would always be plagued by instability because many sects live in the country.
"These groups have a history of their involvement in terror activities and spreading religious intolerance against minority sects and faiths," said Abubakkar Yousafzai, a member of the Karachi branch of Pakistan's Human Rights Commission, speaking to CNBC.
Not only were the French poised to retake the southern part of their former colony, but Buddhist sects with their paramilitary forces and Chinese syndicate rogues based in Cho Lon all controlled important parts of the region.
"Department polling shows that nearly all Iraqis have unfavorable views of ISIL and oppose its goals and tactics, with no significant variation across religious sects and ethnic groups," the report says, using an alternate acronym for ISIS.
A system meant to foster peaceful coexistence has only reinforced sectarian divisions, making most Lebanese dependent on the good graces of their sects' leaders — and each sect more determined to fight for every government dollar and favor.
And from there I became fascinated with all the religions/cults/sects that surfaced here in the past century such as Unarius, the Aetherius Society, the Source Family, Theosophy, Children of God, the Great Eleven, and so on.
"It's in the interest not only of Yazidi victims but of all Iraqis because all sects of Iraq have been victims of ISIS violence," added Clooney, who met with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Friday, following her speech.
And though there are sects of the feminist movement that continue to use it, the rallying cry softened over time, partly in response to the still-pervasive anti-choice narrative that women were getting abortions on a whim.
The consequences could be enormous for a nation that barely survived its own civil war, borders Israel, hosts well over a million Syrian refugees and relies on a shaky power-sharing arrangement between sects for its own stability.
Velvel Pasternak, a leading publisher of Jewish music who recorded and transcribed, and thus preserved, the singular melodies that had typically been passed along by tradition within Hasidic sects, died on Tuesday in Oceanside, N.Y. He was 85.
She says that while Columbia has an active Muslim Students Association, it currently has no full-time imam, but does employ more than five different religious leaders for various sects of Christianity, as well as three Jewish chaplains.
The announcement came after a meeting of President Arif Alvi with clerics from all religious sects, seeking their help in limiting the size of congregations, which in some cases swells to huge numbers during traditional Friday afternoon prayers.
In the second half of the novel, Nargis and her companions find refuge on an island where she and Massud had built a mosque, a long-abandoned sanctuary intended to be used by all four sects of Islam.
"It is the duty of Muslims to try and replace the current president who has betrayed the country and his religion," he said, accusing Widodo of "selling the country to foreigners" and "empowering communists and deviant religious sects".
The group passed the First Armenian Evangelical Church, where he talked about the Lebanese diaspora — Lebanese expatriates greatly outnumber Lebanese living inside the country — as well as the country's complex political system and its 18 recognized religious sects.
A number of candidates want to get rid of the system whereby political power is divided among Lebanon's religious sects, with the president always a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni and the speaker of parliament a Shia.
This suggests an incredibly great diversity within Jewish religious experience and practice around the time of Jesus, as well as a great deal of overlap in imagery and theology between mystical Jewish sects that predate Christianity and Christianity itself.
In a May 2017 speech in Saudi Arabia, for example, he "praised Islam as 'one of the world's great faiths' and emphasised that the fight against terrorism 'is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilisations' ".
"In a certain way, still the regime is secular but the composition is not secular," said Van Dam, who added that any hopes for future reconciliation between Syria's sects would be hard to achieve "for many, many, many years".
Last month, AsiaOne reported that the capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka, formed a 600-person police unit specializing in technology to combat militancy and terrorism amid an increase in the number of attacks on publishers, different Muslim sects and foreigners.
Since Muhammad's death, there have been innumerable legal debates and countless sects; the flourishing of poetry, music, mysticism, art, and mathematics; and the syncretic blending of the Islamic tradition with civilizations in Turkey, Persia, Spain, the Balkans, and India.
The International Association of Genocide Scholars also released a statement last fall signed by dozens of members that said it believed the Islamic State was committing genocide against a range of Christian sects, Yazidis, Kurds, Shiite Muslims and others.
When in early 1955 the regime faced violent challenges to its rule from sects within South Vietnam, Lansdale persuaded the Eisenhower administration to stand firm with Diem, a critical move that in all likelihood preserved Diem's hold on power.
The ultra-Orthodox sects have typically wielded political power by voting as a bloc and by uniting across internal rifts — Hasidic and non-Hasidic, Ashkenazi and Sephardic — to deliver the biggest possible numbers for their candidates and their allies.
It is a dedicated patch of sand for conservative women amid the cultural mélange of Lebanon, which, with its 18 recognized religious sects and vigorous all-night party scene, tends to be more socially liberal than other Arab countries.
There's been a rapid spike in coronavirus disease, or Covid-19, cases in South Korea, and about half of the 231 confirmed cases are linked to a secretive religious group often viewed with suspicion by more traditional religious sects.
The nine victims shot in their vehicles as they traveled to a wedding ― three women and six children ― were from the LeBaron and Langford families, breakaway Mormon sects who have lived in Chihuahua and Sonora regions for many years.
All of this is to say that incest and inbreeding have been going on for so long—and so prevalently—in the polygamous sects along the Utah/Arizona border that these stories have been woven into the fiber of the communities.
Most of the people who were at the Human Be-In [a 1967 concert/event that aimed to join together various sects of the counterculture movement] were tripping on a brand new batch of acid he created called White Lightning.
The proposal in Iraq, which opponents say could allow the marriage of children as young as 9 or at puberty in some religious sects, has been approved in principle by the Council of Representatives, the country's legislature, local media says.
Over the next several days, protests mushroomed from dozens of people into the hundreds of thousands, propelling as much as a quarter of the population of this small Mediterranean country — including people of all ages and sects — into the streets nationwide.
The late Rabbi Mordechai Hager, who was leader of one of the largest Hasidic sects in the United States, was said to have been unhappy about Orthodox Jews who did not use public schools dominating the East Ramapo school board.
Since the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, France, at the start of 2015, Western Europe has witnessed more than a dozen major terrorist attacks attributed to or inspired by the Islamic State and similar virulent sects, tragedies that killed hundreds.
No president in the history of the United States has been removed from office through impeachment, but it will likely continue to be a popular topic in liberal sects of the party, and it's possible others will give it a shot.
And unlike the south, with its mixture of esoteric sects, foremost the Druze, who remained largely loyal to the regime, the north was also more uniformly Sunni and hostile to the regime of Bashar al-Assad and its Alawite power base.
Even if the negotiations somehow succeed, Yemenis scarred by the vicious fighting, past broken promises and deepening divisions say they fear that any truce would just be a prelude to an even uglier war, fought between regions, religious sects — even neighbors.
Instead, would-be patriarchs have claimed to oppose religious misogyny the way Gilead's founders opposed pimps and pornographers, by appropriating good-faith criticism of the world's most Gilead-like religious sects (specifically, those involving Muslims) to excuse misogyny closer to home.
Although the new prime minister, Adel Abdul Mehdi, is taking important steps to mend the relationship between Baghdad and Erbil, there has not been the kind of national reconciliation project that needs to involve individual citizens of different sects and religions.
World Briefing Assailants with knives killed a Christian convert in northern Bangladesh on Tuesday, the latest in a series of attacks on liberal activists, members of minority Muslim sects and members of other religious groups in the Muslim-majority nation.
The religious fanaticism of so-called Christian and New Age cults persists in more marketable guises in mainstream Christianity across the United States, while the spirit of self-determination that impels many of these sects is central to American ideology.
The community strives to keep its protests peaceful, despite unrest stirred up by militants looking to pit people of different sects against each other, said Abdul Khaliq Hazara, chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), which has two provincial assembly representatives.
It can be hard to grasp that the distinctions among various sects of Judaism (not to mention the wide and growing variety of Jewish practices outside established synagogues) aren't about theology but about observance: how many, and which, rules are followed.
Over the last few months, Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the killings of two foreigners, attacks on members of minority Muslim sects and other religious groups, but the government has denied that the militant group has a presence in Bangladesh.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints formally ended the practice in 1890 as a condition of Utah's admission into the union, but an estimated 30,000 members of fringe fundamentalist sects of the church continue to practice it.
Lebanese of all sects are objecting to ideas that have surfaced so far, seeing $6 billion for Lebanon as an inducement to accept the settlement of Palestinians who have lived as refugees in the country since Israel's creation in 19823.
ISIS is a group that does a lot of harm to those who live under it but it is far too weak to pose a genuine military threat to the United States; this is even more true of the various other terrorist sects.
In working on my Charting Sacred Territories project, I wanted to trace all this rich imagery that we have inherited from the world's greatest religions and to show the complex interconnectivity and genealogies of each religion — branches of sects, denominations, and groups.
As a result of the Muslim World League (MWL) Conference in one of Islam's two holiest cities, attended by more than 2628,28503 Muslim leaders representing 22020 countries and 27 Islamic sects, the charter sought to implement changes of an all-encompassing nature.
The Order and FLDS bear some striking similarities: The respective founders of both sects split away from the mainstream Mormon church in order to continue the practice of polygamy, which was formally outlawed in the LDS faith in the late nineteenth century.
The hanging of Qadri on February 29th has become a rallying point for Pakistan's Barelvis, a broad movement within the majority Sunni community which had been regarded as non-political and non-violent as well as a useful foil to more militant sects.
"Mohammad bin Salman is bringing a refreshing change, and this may be met with a lot of backlash from certain sects in the country," said Mohammad bin Atef, 28, a manager at a supermarket chain who comes from the conservative Qassim Province.
Rabbi Mordechai Hager, the reserved but strong-willed leader of one of the nation's largest Hasidic sects, who settled many of his followers in a relatively bucolic upstate enclave to escape New York City's temptations and decadence, died on Friday in Manhattan.
It is striking that remarkable new ideas surfaced in Hinduism during the period of Muslim rule, such as those developed by its many devotional sects, which enriched the religion and gave it a form that is currently observed by some Hindu devotees.
The music was published as "Songs of the Chassidim II." Music in the Hasidic world is an essential part of Sabbath and holiday meals, as well as weddings and other ceremonies, and individual sects may have their own distinctive nigunim, or religious melodies.
BTW, there are several more companies that stream services outside of just protestant sects of Christianity -- Catholics (who are Christian too) exclusively have EWTN to watch mass throughout the week ... so you can only imagine what sorts of numbers they're raking in.
Like all small sects, reform conservatism had its share of internal divisions, but the basic idea was to claim a middle ground between left-wing pessimism about the post-1970s American economy and right-wing faith in the eternal verities of Reaganomics.
To the Editor: Two thousand years ago, a young Jew led a progressive religious movement in opposition to the Pharisees and the Sadducees, two religiously conservative sects who were recognized as the foremost arbiters of Scripture when Jesus appeared on the scene.
But while numbers are difficult to come by, conversions to Christianity are probably more than matched by internal ones between Sunni, Shia, Ahmadi and other forms of Islam in countries like Egypt and Pakistan, often involving grave risks for converts to minority sects.
Designating corrupt Lebanese businessmen and officials under the Global Magnitsky Act would offer a tangible response to the persistent demands of Lebanese protesters because such action would target corrupt individuals from all sects and complement the anti-sectarian rhetoric of the Lebanese street.
With its Judaica stores, kosher pizza shops, men in traditional black coats and hats and women with long skirts, Borough Park is home to thousands of Orthodox and Hasidic Jews, belonging to a range of sects, including Bobover, Belz, Satmar, Ger and Viznitz.
Many forms of nationalism have laid claims to a world-redeeming promise; many Christian sects have sought, in open or secret heresy, to find the sacred in the profane; many European Protestants have linked the soul's journey and the way to wealth.
It was Judge Richard R. Clifton — not Noah G. Purcell, Washington State's solicitor general — who said that evidence of religious discrimination was thin and that "the concern for terrorism with those connected with radical Islamic sects is kind of hard to deny."
Grewal formally identified the suspects as David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, and said that investigators had found evidence linking the pair to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, a sprawling network of overlapping sects and theologies that has a black supremacist wing.
The state is more tolerant of religious diversity than many European countries, argues Amanda van Eck, director of Inform, a research group that studies religious movements at the London School of Economics; in France, for instance, sects may be prosecuted for crimes including manipulation mentale.
A common grievance, says Mr Ali, a fellow of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, is that Western consciences are moved by the plight of ethnic and religious minorities, such as the Kurds or Yazidis or small Christian sects, but indifferent to ordinary Sunni Arabs.
In the meeting attended by Salim Jabouri, the head of parliament, Vice President Osama Nujaifi and other Sunni politicians, leaders agreed an historic opportunity existed to heal the rifts among Iraq's warring sects and restore shattered confidence by mainstream Sunni toward the state, Khanjar said.
Last year, his administration rescinded a city rule requiring parents to sign consent forms about the health risks of a ritual common among some sects of the ultra-Orthodox where the mohel uses his mouth to suck away blood from an infant's penis during circumcision.
Now, more than two years after a young Afghan couple from different sects, Zakia and Mohammad Ali, eloped against the wishes of their families, they arrived in New York City late on Tuesday on a 90-day visa granted by the American Embassy in Kabul.
Protesters span a range of ages and include members from across Lebanon's 18 religious sects, who appear to share a similar anger at a government characterized by decades of graft, corruption and the inability to provide basic services like reliable electricity or garbage disposal.
Nearly 30 years after the end of a civil war in which Beirut was cloven into Muslim and Christian halves connected only by a gutted buffer zone, Lebanese from all different sects now commonly mingle every day at home, at work and in public.
A feud between two of the Bloods sects, the Stones and the Hounds, over sales of $5 bags of marijuana, had culminated in a shooting on Thursday, according to one of the men, who identified himself only as Al because he feared for his safety.
"The goal is to end the presence of the separatist terrorist group (YPG) and wreck their plan to change the demographic composition of the area and allow those displaced from all sects to go back to their home towns and villages," the rebel official Hamoud said.
Lebanon has been a model for tolerance, in which Christians, Sunni and Shiite Muslims, and more than a dozen religious sects live together and share in the governance of their country, but this situation is testing their patience and willingness to cooperate with the international community.
These sects, which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints later excommunicated, created their own offshoot settlements, including the La Mora settlement, in Bavispe, part of the Sonora state; Templo de Colonia Juarez in the state of Chihuahua; and LeBaron in Galeana, in Chihuahua.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, was not so reticent in her joint news conference with Mr. Putin on Tuesday, questioning the prosecution of civil society groups, homosexuals and religious sects while pooh-poohing Mr. Putin's stance that the change of government in neighboring Ukraine had been undemocratic.
Catholic entities currently make up three of the top six largest health care chains; 17 percent of the hospital beds in America are in Catholic facilities, which are growing more rapidly than those of other religious sects and most other hospital chains, especially in rural areas.

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