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In my article on the organisation I described them as a millenarian sect.
FOR a stable society, the United States has been home to a remarkable number of millenarian sects.
Whether new local terrorist groups, like extreme fanatic or millenarian sects or racist and violent ecologist militias, will follow rational criteria remains to be seen.
Shortly afterwards, Tatham joined a millenarian sect, becoming an Irvingite (follower of Edward Irving).
A former monk and Phu Mi Bun in the Ubon Ratchathani area headed a millenarian sect inspired by his predictions of 'apocalyptic' vision.
Millenarian sects have been harbingers of dynastic change since the Yellow Turbans contributed to the fall of the Han Dynasty at the end of the second century.
In the first century A.D., the Zealots, a Jewish millenarian sect, specialized in the dagger slayings of Roman centurions and their Jewish collaborators.
High Island was the home of a timber-cutting and truck farm operation run in 1912-1927 by the House of David, a millenarian sect based in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
Durham was the home of a 19th Century millenarian sect known as The Kingdom (the link to "castle"?) whose home, "Shiloh", was an imposing wooden complex on a hill, capped by a huge crown.
His rebel force later joined the Red Turbans, a millenarian sect related to the White Lotus Society, and one that followed cultural and religious traditions of Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and other religions.
As the Timurid rule decayed, Khuzestan was taken over by the Msha'sha'iya, a Shi'a millenarian sect who dominated the western region of the province from the middle of the 15th century to the 19th century.
To the Editor: Joyce Carol Oates (Op-Ed, Dec. 30) should know that mainstream Christians are also celebrating the millennium in church services around the country, without focusing on the Book of Revelation, as millenarian sects will do.
On the west bank in the area of Ubon Ratchathani, a less-well known former monk and phi bun headed a millenarian sect inspired by his apocalyptic prophecies, which spread fear, uncertainty and doubt among almost all the peoples along both banks of the river.
During the Commonwealth, All-Hallows-the-Great was a centre for the Fifth Monarchy Men, a millenarian sect that preached the coming of the reign of saints following the demise of the fifth rule of kings, as prophesied in the Book of Daniel.
Rejecting the doctrine of the millenarian sects, Lightfoot had various practical suggestions for the repression of current "blasphemies", for a thorough revision of the authorized version of the Scriptures, for the encouragement of a learned ministry, and for a speedy settlement of the church.