Sects

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Heresy New religious movements Sectarian violence Heterodoxy

Deletion debates over stub articles about minor denominations Notability rules and the fate of stub articles on tiny spiritual groups Why sect is a neutral word in sociology and an insult in everyday speech The church-sect typology and what it was meant to explain How scholars define cult differently from sect and why the distinction is contested Why the brainwashing explanation of sect recruitment lost support among researchers How small schismatic groups stay distinct from the parent body Why the same group is a sect to rivals and a church to its own members Why second-generation members often leave a sect their parents joined Why the same split is called a denomination in one country and a sect in another When a sect stops being a sect and becomes a denomination Whether a sect can grow without loosening its boundaries The language members and outsiders use for the same small religious group Why news coverage of sects focuses on the same few cases Legal tests that decide whether a group is a sect or a religion

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