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Abba Yahiyya or Abu Yahiyya, was the leader of a sect of Afghani Alenzar (Nizariun Hagarenes) who followed an independent Ishmaili Sufi Herat tradition, introduced to the west by Omar Michael Burke in his 1976 book Among the Dervishes.
In close relationship to the Clementine writings stand the Bible translator Symmachus and the Jewish-Christian sect to which he belonged.
The Apostolic Brethren (sometimes referred to as Apostolici, Apostoli, Apostles) were a Christian sect founded in northern Italy in the latter half of the 13th century by Gerard Segarelli.
After seventy years of Nirvana of 24th Tirthankara Mahavira, in 40 A.D.(Vira Nirvana Samvat-70), the Paramara sect of North Indian King Prithvipal's heir, King Jobanpal and Prince Sachchipal
He is one of the leading proponents of the Adyatma movement, which eventually led to the Terapanth sect of the Digambar Jains.
(Borges depicts a fictional sect with this belief in his short story "The Theologians".)
He left after four years, in the early 1960s, and joined a group, The Chicago Sect, in Dortmund, Germany.
Meanwhile, in a world corrupted by Darkseid and the Anti-Life Equation the Cult of the Stone, a religious sect devoted to the adoration of Cain, used the Spear of Destiny, carelessly misplaced by Allen himself while judging Montoya, to resurrect Cain in the body of Vandal Savage.
In Harangul, it is believed that a certain sect of women, known as daayans, reside in a particular area of the village.
Missionary Church of the Disciples of Jesus Christ, a mendicant evangelical sect based in California's Inland Empire
Other than his writings, he was also known for his syncretic combination of Yellow Hat and Red Hat sect beliefs.
Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a conservative Hindu sect, has built BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Chicago, a large, intricately carved, marble temple in Bartlett.
This Sila is worshipped, along with or independent of Sila (murthi) or Saligrama Sila, in some parts of the country (among Vaishnavites of Saurashtra, Bengal and Maharashtra; the Madhva sect in Karnataka), particularly in the Vaishnava tradition.
This was considered scandalous: Rukmini belonged to a Hindu Brahmin family orthodox enough to disapprove of Sriram's involvement with the Theosophists, whom they regarded as a bizarre quasi-Christian sect; there were considerations of race, religion and cultural background; and Rukmini was young enough to be Arundale's daughter, being twenty-six years younger than he was.
The piety attributed to Ḥasidim in the Talmudic sources is not in any way abnormal or suggestive of sect (Lehmann, in R. E. J. xxx. 182 et seq.).
Her mother was not of the Chehalis sect but rather belonged to the Kwalhioqua—a tribe no longer in existence.
Hendrik Nicholis (or Hendrik Niclaes, Heinrich Niclaes) (c.1501–c.1580) was a German mystic and founder of the Christian sect "Family of Love" (a.k.a. "Familists", "Familia Caritatis" or "Hus der Lieften").
In June 1680, government correspondence from Oberhofen asked counsel from authorities in Berne on how to deal with a Jakob Ammann who had “become infected with the Anabaptist sect”.
The sect, however, continued and was expanded upon by other “prophets”, including Richard Brothers, George Turner, William Shaw and John Wroe.
He tricks the sect's members into electing him as their new chief, by pretending that he is possessed by the spirit of Hung Tsat-kung.
Mantralayam, Andhra Pradesh, India, a major center of pilgrimage for Hindus belonging to the Madhva sect
Lu Sheng-yen (born 1945), commonly referred to by followers as Grand Master Lu (師尊) is the founder and spiritual leader of the True Buddha School, a new Buddhist sect with teachings taken from Sutrayana and Vajrayana (Tantric Buddhism), as well as Taoism
In Najran city, the Khushaiwa compound, with its Mansura mosque complex, is the spiritual capital of the Sulaymani branch of the Ismaili sect, one of two major strands of contemporary Ismailism.
It was funded by and constructed under the auspices of the Mahayana Buddhist sect known as Fo Guang Shan, and completed in 1995.
The second half of his name is Dass meaning "servant," therefore the Satguru of the Ravidassia Hinduism sect is the "Servant of Illumination."
Staroizrail, a sect of 19th century Russian Spiritual Christianity
Among the episodes are "Gunslinger from Galeville" (the series premiere), "A Bullet for an Editor", "Guns of Silver", "Postmarked for Death", "The Epitaph", "Geronimo", "The Outcasts" (about a religious sect), "The Lady Gambler", "The Black Marshal from Deadwood", and "Doc Holliday in Durango".
The Prince Philip Movement is a religious sect followed by the kastom people around Yaohnanen village on the southern island of Tanna in Vanuatu.
Examples of books labeled Old Testament pseudepigrapha from the Protestant point of view are the Ethiopian Book of Enoch, Jubilees (both of which are canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, and the Beta Israel sect of Judaism); the Life of Adam and Eve and "Pseudo-Philo".
It is more likely that the ideological roots of the sect derived from the Rinzai poet and iconoclast Ikkyū and the monk Shinchi Kakushin (心地覺心) who traveled to and from China and Japan in the 13th century.
Muhammad Ilyas Qadri, Pakistani scholar of the Sunni and Sufi sect in Islam
Today Qutbi Bohra has members from PDB devoted to the development of Qutbi Bohra secretly and also some members of the Dawoodi Bohra sect promoting the same.
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While participtating in the development programs of Dawoodi Bohra sect it always takes care that the members of the Qutbi Bohra sect benefit from it.
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This formation was known to the elite of the PDB and a few selected members of Dawoodi Bohra sect.
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The then Syedi Khuzaima Qutbuddin used the money and power of position given to him by the Dawoodi Bohra sect to further the growth of Qutbi sect.
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The then Syedi Khuzaima Qutbuddin's claim to Qutbi Bohra sub sect leadership was endorsed by members of PDB and some of the elite members of Dawoodi Bohra sect.
Hon'ami Kōetsu founded an artistic community of craftsmen supported by wealthy merchant patrons of the Nichiren Buddhist sect at Takagamine in northeastern Kyoto in 1615.
His family was Protestant, but his father, according to the apocryphal memoirs of the Marquise de Créquy, "had embraced the sect of Arminius and had been forced into exile."
The plot involves a sect called the Abrahamites, who (according to the movie) sacrifice their first borns following an alternative interpretation of God's Will in the near-sacrifice of Isaac.
The Shouters, an offshoot Chinese Christian group labelled as a Christian sect by the PRC
The Stars My Destination - science fiction novel by Alfred Bester features a futuristic version of the Skoptsy sect, in which members have all sensory nerves severed.
JAN ALLA SHAHI - A sect founded at Jalna by Jan Mohammed, who was born at Sinnur near Delhi in H. 1030.
Achin Pakhi (The Unknown Bard): A documentary on the life and musicology of Fakir Lalon Shah, the doyen among the wandering sect of the folk-singers of rural Bengal known as the Bauls.
Their search brings them to Sichuan, where the Mount Shu Sect, a powerful martial arts clan, is based.
He is also entrusted with the care of Hasan a blind pupil who is believed by the so-called 'twenty-fourthers' (cf. twelvers), a sect of the nizari ismailis, to be the twenty-fourth imam (cf. Twelfth Imam), whose occultation they eagerly await...
Ton'a took a tonsure at Enryaku-ji Temple, but was later associated with the Ji sect 時宗 (founded by Ippen).
Trần Quang Vinh (1897-1975) was a political leader of the Cao Đài sect active at the time of the establishment of the 1945 Empire of Vietnam.
The Victorious Sect (or Taifatul Mansura Group) is a transnational Turkish jihadist group operating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border region.
Targets included offices of the Japan Teachers Union, buildings in Osaka and Tokyo of the terrorist sect Aum Shinrikyo (which had perpetrated the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995), the pro-North Korea Chongryon association, and in the only threat taken seriously by the Japanese police, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hitoshi Tanaka, who had attempted rapprochement with North Korea in 2002.