On the long road to California, in the midst of forbidding and barren wastes, a religious sect, the Mormons, had planted a colony destined to a stormy career.
In little religious sects, accordingly, the morals of the common people have been almost always remarkably regular and orderly; generally much more so than in the established church.
Upon such occasions, each political party has either found it, or imagined it, for his interest, to league itself with some one or other of the contending religious sects.
He never emerges so effectually from this obscurity, his conduct never excites so much the attention of any respectable society, as by his becoming the member of a small religious sect.
The hope of the Mormons that they might forever remain undisturbed by outsiders was soon dashed to earth, for hundreds of farmers and artisans belonging to other religious sects came to settle among them.
But he's intersecting with all of the currents of race, of religion, of faith, particularly Islam, or in his case, he joined the Nation of Islam, which was a kind of separatist religious sect.
The Cathars were a religious sect that flourished in the south of France in the 12th century and rejected the teachings of the Catholic Church, in the belief that they were immoral and that the clergy were hypocritical and corrupt.