Out of this division, two opposing sectarian movements evolved, the Protestant Orange Order and the Catholic Ancient Order of Hibernians.

His commitment to the fight against sects causes him to be particularly controversial - he has been sued by religious and sectarian movements.

And unlike small, intense sectarian movements, denominations do not consider friendly cooperation with one another a betrayal of doctrinal purity.

Since Josephus was strongly opposed to Jewish irredentism, or any other sectarian movement which gave trouble to the authorities, he clearly adopted an anti-Christian posture.

Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism (which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity), they were liable to slip into unbelief.

Anti-democracy and sectarian movements.

Some sectarian religious movements, such as Chan Buddhism (Japanese Zen) may endure for centuries and become regulated by the state.

In the medieval Islamic tradition, Mani is described as a painter who set up a sectarian movement in opposition to Zoroastrianism.

Harold Schulweis opines that Reconstructionism is "the only Jewish spiritual, sectarian movement indigenous to the American environment."

It had great impact as a general critique of Jewish religion and culture but now it is also a sectarian movement.