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69 matches to Clapham Sect
Clapham Sect. 1790-1830. Wilberforce’s social reformers and missionaries.
Adventists. US religious sect that believes in the imminent second coming of Christ.
Aga Khan. Title of leader of Ismaili Moslem sect.
Albigenses. (Cathars). Southern French ascetic Neo-Manichean heretic Christian sect. Eliminated by 13th Crusade, 1208-1229 and Inquisition.
Anabaptists. 1520- Christian sect. Adult baptism. No clergy. Salvation via faith. Millenialist. Hutterites, Mennonites, Quakers. Peasants War.
Apollonius of Perga. c262-190BC. Greek mathematician: named conic sections: ellipse, hyperbola, parabola.
Asceticism. Self denial of sensual and material pleasures. Advocated by many religious sects.
Babism. 1844-50. Shi’ite mystical ascetic sect. Numerology. Number 19. Baha’ism.
Bhagavatas. 2C BC. Hindu sect.
Browne, Robert. 1550-1633. English founder of congregationalist Brownist sect, 1580. Exiled.
Carmathians. 890-10C. Moslem reform sect. Kidnaped and ransomed Stone of Ka’bah 930-950.
Carpocrations. 2C-6C. Gnostic heretic sect.
Cathars. 11-14C. Christian Gnostic heretic sect. Albigens. 1030 burned in Italy.
Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion. 1746-. Methodist Calvinistic sect.
Dogen. 1200-53. Japanese philosopher. Brought Zen sect from China.
Donatism. 301-5C. Christian sect believing sacraments given by priests who had sinned are invalid.
Druze. Small Middle East Shi’ite sect worshipping al-Hakim.
Dukhobors. 1755-. Russian Christian pacifist, anarchist sect. Leaders claimed to be Christ reincarnated. Tolstoy sponsored emigration to Canada, 1898.
Dunkards. 1708-. German Baptist sect.
Flagellants. 13C-. Christian sects who practise self-whipping as means of salvation.
Gnosticism. 1-6C. Heretical Christian sect incorporating mysticism, dualism, Docetism.
Harmony Society. Protestant celibate ascetic communal sect. Founded Harmony, PA 1806.
Hasideans. Jewish sects. 300-175BC. Strict Talmudic observation.
Hasidism. 18C-. Jewish sect founded by Eliezer, called Ba’al Shem-Tov. Stresses good-heartedness over scholarship, mystical approach to God.
Hinduism. c 1500BC-. Indian religion. Cycles of life, death, reincarnation. Release by enlightenment. Caste system. Vedas. Root of Buddhism, Jainism, many sects. Upanishads.