Word: sects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President is always a Maronite Christian (a Roman Catholic sect with a liturgy of its own. tracing back to a fifth century monk named Maro), the Prime Minister a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of the House a Shiite Moslem. The size of the Parliament may vary, but it is usually constituted in multiples of eleven, so that all the faiths, including the Greek Orthodox, the Druse and others may be proportionately represented. The government party and the opposition each form a front to offer a candidate of the appropriate sect for each seat, and though Sunnite runs against Sunnite...
Last January the Christian Century began a four-part series on U.S. Christian cults and soon began to regret it. Author Marcus Bach, writer on offbeat religions (Strange Altars), was treating his subjects so sympathetically that sect-shopping Century readers were writing in to ask how they could get in touch. Managing Editor Theodore A. Gill, a staunch Presbyterian, grimly published all the articles-on Psychiana, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unity and Baha'i; then he tore off an editorial taking the sects apart...
...seek ways to ameliorate a condition which only Armageddon can end. Knowing that the bells will not resign themselves to an ornamental quiet, we must search for the only people who know how to control them. Somewhere in Russia, where the bells were cast, there exists, we pray, a sect of monks who are the original trustees of the bells. Either the present Quasimodos of Lowell House must go to these learned men for lessons, or one of the brothers must be persuaded to leave his peaceful retreat. If the monks are made to realize that the mission will constitute...
...Particular attention is drawn to the Church of Don Basilio [i.e., the Mission of Faith, a small, offbeat, sect], which because of its visionary character has numerous proselytizers in the Holy City. Many converts have been made among gardeners in city parks and porters in railroad terminals...
...outgrowth of a heretical sect founded in France by rich Merchant Peter Waldo in 1176, which moved to the Piedmont Alps and became Protestant early in the Reformation...