Sect Quotes

“Sectarianism”

“Collectivism”

“Self religion”

“New religious movement”

“Large-group awareness training”

“Sect”

“sect”

“Jonestown was at heart a religious community, whether classified as a new religious movement, a cult, a sect, or a church.”

“Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.”

“The Heaven's Gate sect received national attention in the spring of 1997, when its thirty-nine members committed suicide in Southern California.”

“Peoples Temple and the Branch Davidians both approximated the 'apocalyptic sect' as an ideal type. In such sects the end of the world is taken as a central tenet.”

“Like Peoples Temple, the Branch Davidians approximated the 'apocalyptic sect' as an ideal type.”

“Branch Davidians are a modern religious sect that claims to be an offshoot of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The church renounced any connection with the sect in the 1930s.”

“Observers of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple noted that Jones' socialist sect did not lose non-profit status or receive reams of negative publicity until the massacre at Guyana occurred.”

“The Branch Davidians are an offshoot of the Davidians, a religious sect that had split from the Seventh-Day Adventists in the 1930s.”

“To read the website of the Heaven's Gate sect is to enter a world of eternal promise. Among those who are going home for good, there is only 'joy', 'the rapture of the saved', the blissful prophecy of the 'Talmudic sages'.”

“The Indiana Peoples Temple was essentially a sect, which was joined by new religious movement members in California, which then recruited black church members as it focused its ministry on the residents of urban California.”

“The Peoples Temple movement began in the 1950s as an independent Pentecostal congregation of white and black working-class families … Some argue it was initially a Christian sect that then became a new religious movement.”

“There is an interesting class difference to be found among these apocalyptic sects. The victims at Waco were predominantly from the lower class, as was true of Jonestown. The Heaven's Gate believers, on the other hand, were on the whole from the middle class.”

“Despite being a relatively new organization, the Church of Scientology already has had to denounce splinter groups, including sects that claim to practice Dianetics complete with E-Meters independent of the Church.”