sect

An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.

a religious sect

A group following a specific ideal or a leader.

Zen Center welcomes visitors, guests, and prospective students, but it does not engage in systematic institutional or network recruiting of new members, unlike the Christian sect and Erhard Seminars Training.

Every person who is not a fellow member, and every social, religious and political institution that lies outside the sect's domain, is portrayed as a representative of Satan's world. In our research, we found that Moonies and members of many Christian sects with similar religious and political doctrines often focus on such beliefs to the exclusion of all other thought.

A cutting; a scion.

An ancient astrological concept, a form of polarity by which heavenly bodies were designated as either diurnal or nocturnal.