Word: sects
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grubby streets of Pasay City, a suburb of Manila, a most unusual group of men gathered last week. They were members of an obscure political sect called Lapiang Malaya (Freedom Movement), and they were armed with long bolo knives and dressed in peculiar blue uniforms with red and yellow capes. At the command of their leader, an old (eightyish) fanatic named Valentin de los Santos, they had come up from their homes in the paddy fields of southern Luzon. Their mission: to march on the presidential palace in Manila and overthrow the government...
...what religion has thugs to do its missionary work with kicks? There were Black Muslims in the mob of assassins that killed Malcolm X. The karate is an expression of their piety in street rumbles. It is Clay's cop-out that he is a minister of this furious sect...
Danny is a Hasid-a member of the ultra-Orthodox sect that affects earlocks, broad-brimmed hats and long, black overcoats-while Reuven, the novel's narrator, practices a more liberal Judaism. As the son of a tzaddik (as the Hasids' hereditary rabbis are called), Danny must follow his father as the sect's leader, though his personal bent is toward psychology. Gradually, the two boys work toward Danny's inevitable break with tradition and discover along the way that the humanistic content of Judaism far outweighs its rigid ritualism...
Unitarianism was once snidely summed up as a small New England sect with a faith in the fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man, and the neighborhood of Boston. No longer. According to a new and wide-ranging survey of the Unitarian Universalist Association*which was undertaken by Chicago's Opinion Research Center, it has proportionately more college-educated and affluent members than any other church in the U.S.-and more than two-thirds of them now live outside New England, away from the faith's old neighborhood. The survey indicates that 63% of adult Unitarians earn more...
...life." There are the four absolutes--love, purity, honesty, and unselfishness. But MRA is not an ideology and not a religion. That is clear from the literature, which the Sing-Out Kids and their leaders readily quote: "It is not a religion nor a substitute for religion, nor a sect. It is a non-profit, charitable work financed by people from all walks of life." It is literature like this that could keep that beautiful smile from Heikki's rugged face for quite a while...