the green one
The Quakers
It could be a congregation, a sect or an assemblage.
A religious sect. Unkindly, people might say they were a bunch of loonies.
A religious sect. Unkindly, people might say they were a bunch of loonies.
Shakers are a nearly extinct religious sect.
shia which is the sect of the majority in Iran
The Kurds belong to many different sects, most notably being the Sunni sect as the majority. There is also a the Shia sect from among Kurds, most from the Shia sect live in Iran and Iraq.
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A church state - government ran by religious sect is unique in different ways. The administration follows the religious teachings in most cases rather than a constitution made by people.
Orthodoxy is the teaching of some specific religious sect; heresy would be anything that disagrees with that orthodoxy. Of course, since different people belong to different religious sects, one man's orthodoxy is another man's heresy. It is a highly subjective judgment.
Some advantages would be meeting religious people just like you, as well as having some people that you can talk to about your religious beliefs, as each sect of Christianity is different in its beliefs and one can only side with their own sect.
A sect is defined as a subdivision of a larger religious group, so the answer is yes.