represented by the Pure Land sects founded by Hōnen (Jōdoshū) and Shinran (Jōdoshinshū) and Nichiren’s salvific sect, based on his reading of the Lotus Sutra. These new sects gained support ...

In the following years, Kelso became deeply involved in a number of religious sects. For a while, he was a devoted practitioner of transcendental meditation. He then moved on to a Japanese religion ...

If we talk about the number of fatalities and the degree of destruction, three major disasters stand out in Japan. Two are ...

A long-standing rivalry between the Vadakalai and Thenkalai sects of Shrivaishnavites reignited on Wednesday during the annual 'Paarvettai' ritual at the Varadharaja Perumal temple in Tamil Nadu.

A spat broke out between the Vadakalai and Thenkalai sects of Shrivaishnavites during the annual 'Paarvettai' ritual at Kancheepuram's Varadharaja Perumal temple in Tamil Nadu. The disagreement over ...

The law enforcement raid on Friday is the latest legal action against the group, which is often described as a cult. Authorities in Guatemala raided the compound of Lev Tahor, an extremist Jewish ...

many residents of this rural village were elated by the end of a half-century of oppression even though they belonged to the same Muslim sect as Syria’s deposed dictator. The residents ...

A dispute over the sprinkling of “holy ashes” in a residential area in Kadoma turned deadly, resulting in the arrest of two members of an apostolic sect for murder. According to the police ...

Fourteen members of an Australian religious group have been convicted of killing an eight-year-old diabetic girl who was denied insulin for almost a week. Elizabeth Struhs died at home in 2022 ...

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