Sects and Cults
Western and Eastern

Definition of terms: religion, sect, cult, denomination, branch, tradition

Images in the Bible - Christianity

1- Western Sects and Cults, Christianity

Christians "without Christ":
     This is a group of churches that may call themselves Christians, use the Bible as their Sacred Scripture, and may even have the name of Christ in the title of their church... but they say that "Jesus is not God", or that Jesus Christ is god as much as you and I are god, like the Mormons.
    - Mormons. The Church of Jesus Christ of the of Latter-day Saints, Book of Mormon
    - Jehovah's Witnesses. Watchtower Bible and Tract Society
    - Moonies. Unification Church - The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity, Sun Myung Moon
   -  New Age
    - Christian Science Church.
    - Church of Scientology.
    - Church Universal and Triumphant.
    - Children of God, Family of Love.
    - Worldwide Church of God, of Armstrong.
    - Spiritualism, Spiritualistic Churches, Spiritism.

    - Unitarian Church
    - Universalism
    - Unitarianism... Universalism.
    - Unity School of Christianity
    - Socinianism      

Lord Ganesh, the elephant- gods of Hinduism

Holy Order of MANS.
Church of the Living God.
Fundamentalism
Rev. Ike, United Christian evangelistic Association
Penitents
International Churches of Christ (ICC) (ICOC)
The Way International
Holy Order of MANS
Church of the Living Word
Crossroads Church of Christ, the Boston Church, the Central London Church of Christ

Destructive Cults, Christian and non-Christian
- People's Temple, Jim Jones, Guayana, Jonestown, 913 death
- Branch Davidians, "Waco", David Koresh (Vernon Howell), 82 death
- The Family, Charles Manson, 8 death
- Jeffrey Lundgren, destructive Mormon splinter group, 5 death
- Order of the Solar Temple, 53 death
- Heaven's Gate, 39 death
- Aum Shinrikyo, subway gas attack in Tokyo, Japan, 1995
- Snake Handlers, Serpent Handlers
- Movement of Restoration of "Ten Commandments, in Uganda, 924 death

Other Christian Cults:

Gnosticism, Neo-Gnosticis, Agnosticism.
Way International.
Holy Order of MANS.
Church of the Living God.
Fundamentalism
Rev. Ike, United Christian evangelistic Association
Penitents
International Churches of Christ (ICC) (ICOC)
The Way International
Holy Order of MANS
Church of the Living Word
Crossroads Church of Christ, the Boston Church, the Central London Church of Christ

Catholics without Pope
  - The Old Catholic churches
  - The Polish Church
  - Society of St. Pius X and Fraternity of St. Pius X,  Lefebvre,
  - Palmar de Troya,  Seville, Spain, Clemente Dominguez
  - Bayside, N.Y., Veronica Lueken

2- Eastern Sects and Cults, Hinduism and Buddhism

   1- Eastern sects and cults- 1:
    Transcendental Meditation, Hare Krishna, Theosophy , New Age... "est", "Erhard Seminars Training", the Forum, Order of the Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate, Aum Shinrikyo

    2- Eastern sects and cults-2:
    Rajneeshism , Sri Chinmoy, Divine Light Mission, Vedanta Society, Krishnamurti Foundation of America, Eckankar, Bubba Free John, Hanuman Foundation, Sathya Sai Baba, Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, Biofeedback, Self-Realization Fellowship, Shree Gurudev Siddha, Sahaja Yoga, 3HO Foundation, Sikh Foundation of Yogi Bhajan, Maitreya

    - Hinduism Traditions, sects and cults, the jungle of religions
    - Buddhist's Traditions or Denominations
        - HINAYANA AND MAHAYANA, the Lesser Vehicle and the Greater Vehicle
        - Tantrism, Vajrayana, Diamond Vehicle, the third Vehicle
        - Zen Buddhism
        - Pure Land... Jodo
        - Tibetan Buddhism... Dalai Lama
        - Nicheren Shu...  Folk Buddhism
    - Buddhism of Buddha, and "Anti-Buddhist" Traditions

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