sects

You can see this most readily in religious sects, but many political movements are little other than that.

Or what about reinterpretations by self-proclaimed prophets that are part of the many fascinating, sometimes scary, and sometimes sizable 'sects'?

The same was true for the practice of all Marxian groups and sects until 1917.

These sects were often started by lay-people who disagreed with the lack of beatings being dolled out by their church leader.

Rumspringa is a practice observed by very few Amish sects, and has not been shown to increase happiness in its participants.

If you're gonna denounce a religion, can you at least get the sects done correctly?

It is astonishingly bizarre that this so called tree focuses only on a small number of recent religions and their sects and orders.

So fanatics of all sects spoil it for Islam in the aggregate.

I think sects use mechanisms similar to what is described in your link.

Maybe a few fringe sects, but never the majority.

We need to watch certain Muslim sects very closely.

Denouncing all of Christianity is also ignorant (because the many sects of Christianity basically have nothing to do with each other outside of an event that happened 2015 years ago).

There is also no sane argument that "some" islamic sects don't include this.

"Religion" is not a single entity, and not all religion defines marriage the same way conservative Christian sects do.

Wilson, "The Persistence of Sects", Diskus, Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religions, Vol 1, No.

(Substitute "homosexuals" for children (because some christian sects promote beating children) or women (ditto) to see other appalling behaviour defended by Christians making reference to the old testament.