Word: sects
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King & His Duty. Ibn Saud is a strict adherent of the fanatically strict Wahabi sect of Islam. He neither practices nor permits smoking, drinking, or dancing. His justice is swift and sure: thieves have their hands chopped off; murderers, their heads...
...officially Catholic Brazil, spiritualists are a numerous sect. Last week Brazil's spiritualists had Brazil in a dither...
...also been interested in technology-he had a passion for driving locomotives (see cut). The People's Court learned that he had also been a mystic. Yordan Lutcheff, a royal councilor who was also on trial, reported that Boris had been a member of the secret sun-worshipping sect of Dunovists. Founded 25 years ago by a Professor Dunov, who died in Sofia last week, the sect numbers some 700 men & women. Each summer the Dunovists climb Mount Musala, Bulgaria's highest mountain, in order to be nearer the sun. They also chant hymns to the sun every...
...sect was outlawed under Defense of Canada regulations. Many members were fined or interned. In 1943 the ban was lifted...
...Salt Lake City last week three women spoke up in defense of the polygamy they had shared. They were members of the heretical Mormon sect recently prosecuted for polygamy (TIME, March 20). In a joint interview, they unanimously (and anonymously) agreed: "Our husbands are more faithful to several wives than most husbands...