Nichiren Sect

Examples of Nichiren Sect in the following topics:

• Japanese Painting and Sculpture in the Kamakura Period

  • These two new sects dominated the artwork produced during the period.
  • During this time, a number of monks who had left the Tendai sect founded separate Buddhist sects of their own.
  • Shinran, disciple of Hōnen and founder of the Jōdo Shinshū sect;
  • Ippen, founder of the Ji sect, which emphasized devotion to Amida Buddha through an ecstatic dance;
  • Nichiren, founder of the Nichiren Sect, which emphasized devotion to the Lotus Sutra, a manual of Buddhist aphorisms presented as a discourse from the Buddha.

• Rinpa School Painting in the Edo Period

  • In 1615, Hon'ami Kōetsu founded an artistic community of craftsmen, supported by wealthy merchant patrons of the Nichiren Buddhist sect at Takagamine in northeastern Kyoto.

• Sect

  • A sect is a group with distinctive religious, political, or philosophical beliefs.
  • A sect is a group with distinctive religious, political, or philosophical beliefs.
  • In the church-sect typology, sects are described as newly formed religious groups that form to protest elements of their parent religion.
  • A sect differs from cults in the degree that members are recruited and kept.
  • Evaluate the varying ways that sects have been understood over time.

• The Church-Sect Typology

  • If the sect withers in membership, it will dissolve.
  • The adoption of denomination-like characteristics can either turn the sect into a full-blown denomination or, if a conscious effort is made to maintain some of the spontaneity and protest components of sects, an institutionalized sect can result.
  • Institutionalized sects are halfway between sects and denominations on the continuum of religious development.
  • Cults are, like sects, new religious groups.
  • Cults, like sects, can develop into denominations.

• Cult

  • The Christian counter-cult movement is a social movement of Christian ministries and individual Christian counter-cult activists who oppose religious sects thought to either partially or entirely fail to abide by the teachings of the Bible.
  • These religious sects are also known among Christians as cults or discernment ministries.
  • Becker created four categories by splitting church into "ecclesia" and "denomination", and sect into "sect" and "cult."
  • Sociologists still maintain that unlike sects, which are products of religious schism that maintain continuity with traditional beliefs and practices, cults arise spontaneously around novel beliefs and practices.
  • While most scholars no longer refer to any new religious movements as cults, some sociologists still favor retaining the word as it was used in church-sect typologies.

• Religion

  • Members of lower classes tend to be affiliated with more fundamentalist religions and sect-like groups.
  • Baptists and members of Protestant fundamentalist sects (which tend to be decentralized and informal) have below average SES.

• Muhammad's Successors

  • After Muhammad's death in 632 CE, there were conflicts among his followers as to who would become his successor, which created a split in Islam between the Sunni and Shi'a sects.
  • The followers of Ali later became the Shi'a minority sect of Islam, which rejects the legitimacy of the first three caliphs.
  • The followers of all four Rashidun caliphs (Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali) became the majority Sunni sect.

• Political Parties from 1800–1824

  • In an analysis of the contemporary party system, Jefferson wrote on Feb. 12, 1798: "Two political Sects have arisen within the US, the one believing that the executive is the branch of our government which the most needs support; the other, that like the analogous branch in the English Government, it is already too strong for the republican parts of the Constitution; and therefore in equivocal cases they incline to the legislative powers: the former of these are called federalists, sometimes aristocrats or monocrats, and sometimes tories, after the corresponding sect in the English Government of exactly the same definition: the latter are stiled republicans, whigs, jacobins, anarchists, disorganizers, etc. these terms are in familiar use with most persons. "

• Introducing observational studies and experiments

  • See the case study inSection 1.1 for another example of an experiment, though that study did not employ a placebo.

• Clinton and Domestic Policy

  • The fears of those who saw government as little more than a necessary evil appeared to be confirmed in the spring of 1993, when federal and state law enforcement authorities laid siege to the compound of a religious sect called the Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas.
  • A final assault on the compound was made on April 19, and 76 men, women, and children died in a fire thought to be set by members of the sect.
  • Many others committed suicide or were killed by fellow sect members.