A new religious body almost always starts out as a sect, once it begins to have a substantial amount of followers it will then become a church. A sect is almost like a cult. The sect is formed to protest its parent religion. Once the sect is formed it can go three different paths, dissolution, institutionalization, or eventual development into a denomination.
These days most religions do not completely control every aspect of your life, the way it did in the 19th century. The sect form usually because of a tension with society. When the sect is formed it has the potential of causing a social change. With a successful sect, it will change the way its members do or believe in something. With a full denomination of a sect, the ideas that are
These days most religions do not completely control every aspect of your life, the way it did in the 19th century. The sect form usually because of a tension with society. When the sect is formed it has the potential of causing a social change. With a successful sect, it will change the way its members do or believe in something. With a full denomination of a sect, the ideas that are