The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has no denominations or sects that it claims as part of it. There are several groups that have LEFT the LDS church, but they are not considered Mormons by the LDS church, even though some of them call themselves Mormons. The two best known are the RLDS (Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), now called the Community of Christ, and the FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), which is in the news a lot presently. The FLDS is the group that is polygamous.
Christianity has the most sects of all the religions, which is in the vicinity of 1000 +/-.
It depends where in the world you are focusing? (Asia, North America, Isanbul???) In America you saw the genesis of many different christian sects such as mormonism, jehovahs witnesses, seventh day adventists.
Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma, 'the eternal law') has four main denominations. The religions denominations are: Vaishnavism (Vishnuism), Shaivism (Shiviti), Shaktism, and Smartism.
There are thousands of Protestant denominations.
Nearly all the different Christian religious sects today had their origin in the Latin Church. They broke off from Catholicism for various reasons over the years. In many cases, additional sects broke off from these Protestant denominations.
According to David Barrett there are ~ 33,820 denominations.
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Christianity is made up of many different denominations. Some examples of Christian denominations include Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Anglican, and Unitarian. Another View: Most would place Christianity into 4 denominations, each with multiple sects as follows: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Non-Aligned.
Buddhism. There are many different sects.
There is many Sects in Islam, there is also diffrent types of Sunnis with different beliefs, sub sects within.
Some pentecostal denominations/sects observe the tradition of women wearing floor-length dresses, as a way of dressing modestly (I Tim. 2:9). Many other pentecostal denominations/sects, while still expecting women to dress modestly, do not require women to wear floor-length dresses.