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Sect

A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political, or philosophical belief system, typically emerging as an offshoot of a larger organization. Originally, the term referred specifically to religious groups that had separated from a main body, but it can now apply to any group that diverges from a larger organization to follow a distinct set of beliefs and…

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Sect

Nodes119
Edges118
Triples148
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016807
Components1

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Sect

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related to Current sects · 66
Sect → Ahkami'l-Lah, Akhbarism, Alamut, Alavis, Alawites, Alevis, Allahiyahs, As, Assassins, Batiniyya, Batiniyyah, Black Muslim, Century, Dawoodis, Druze, Fatimid Caliph Al-Amir, Fatimid Caliphate, Fatimids, Fivers, Hafizis
related to In other languages · 32
Sect → Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, European, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian
related to External links · 14
Sect → Apologetics Index, Archived, Christian, Church, Current, Encyclopedia, Jr, Religion, ReligionNewsBlog, Society, Swatos, The, Wayback Machine, William
related to Sociological definitions and descriptions · 14
Sect → Early, Ernst Troeltsch, Fred Kniss, Max Weber, Other, Rodney Stark, Sects, Sociologists, Some, The American, Their, They, Unlike, William Sims Bainbridge
related to In Islam · 7
Sect → Each, Islam, Islamic, Kharijite, Murijite Islam, Shia Islam, Sunni Islam
related to In Hinduism · 5
Sect → According, Hinduism, Indian, Michaels, The Indologist Axel Michaels
related to Etymology · 4
Sect → Figuratively, Latin, Metonymously, The
see also · 3
Sect → IslamNon-denominational ChristianityNon-denominational JudaismClassifications, New, Religious
related to In Christianity · 2
Sect → Christendom, While
is a · 1
Sect → subgroup of a religious

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sects religious groups separated practices larger islam divided form group society two known term often within heresy developed churches tension

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Sectis asubgroup of a religious0.90text
Sectrelated to Current sectsSunnis0.60section
Sectrelated to Current sectsHanafi0.60section
Sectrelated to Current sectsMaliki0.60section
Sectrelated to Current sectsShafi'i0.60section
Sectrelated to Current sectsHanbali0.60section
Sectrelated to Current sectsThe Shia0.60section
Sectrelated to Current sectsKaysanism0.60section
Sectrelated to Current sectsFivers0.60section
Sectrelated to Current sectsSeveners0.60section
Sectrelated to Current sectsTwelvers0.60section
Sectrelated to Current sectsThe Zaydis0.60section

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