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Eminent scientologists in the USA cry 'Foul!' But Germany's treatment of its sect members is haunted by the past and the pre-eminence of pseudo cults and religions under the Nazis

Sects & cults constitute a third Christian force, in addition to Protestantism & Roman Catholicism, in the contemporary US. Sects are particularist groups with a basically negative orientation. Cults tend to be positively oriented & to be organized around a Charismatic leader. Any discussion of the various religious groups in the US must take into account the diff's in context, rather than the diff's in content, between them. Religious context largely determines whether or not religious groups are in the mainstream of historical development. The principal distinction between sects or cults & denominations is that sects or cults are established to achieve the spatial & psychic context of isolation. The denominations currently adapt to Me beliefs & values. The sects & cults are uneroded, unexposed, intransigent, & withdrawn. They provide a haven from soc interpenetration & complexity. They do not wish to be assimilated into the mainstream of religious thought & practice. The sects & cults, in almost every particular, provide a counter current in the mid-20th cent religious revival. AA.

"This volume analyses the transformation of social sectarianism into political sectarianism across the Arab world. Using a framework of social theories and socio-historical analysis, the book distinguishes between 'ta'ifa', or 'sect', and modern 'ta'ifiyya', 'sectarianism', arguing that sectarianism itself produces 'imaginary sects'. It charts and explains the evolution of these phenomena and their development in Arab and Islamic history, as distinct from other concepts used to study religious groups within Western contexts.Bishara documents the role played by internal and external factors and rivalries among political elites in the formulation of sectarian identity, citing both historical and contemporary models. He contends that sectarianism does not derive from sect, but rather that sectarianism resurrects the sect in the collective consciousness and reproduces it as an imagined community under modern political and historical conditions. 'Sectarianism Without Sects' is a vital resource for engaging with the sectarian crisis in the Arab world. It provides a detailed historical background to the emergence of sect in the region, as well as a complex theoretical exploration of how social identities have assumed political significance in the struggle for power over the state"--From dust jacket

Sects and cults constitute a third Christian force, in addition to Protestantism and Roman Catholicism, in contemporary America. Sects are particularist groups with a basically negative orientation. Cults tend to be positively oriented and to be organized around a charismatic leader. Any discussion of the various religious groups in the United States must take into account the differences in context, rather than the differences in content, between them. Religious context largely determines whether or not religious groups are in the mainstream of historical development. The principal distinction between sects or cults and denominations is that sects or cults are established to achieve the spatial and psychic context of isolation. The denominations currently adapt to middle-class beliefs and values. The sects and cults are uneroded, unexposed, intransigent, and withdrawn. They provide a haven from social interpenetration and complexity. They do not wish to be assimilated into the mainstream of religious thought and practice. The sects and cults, in almost every particular, provide a counter current in the mid-twentieth century religious revival.—Ed.

Résumé Impossible d'évoquer le statut du religieux dans nos sociétés occidentales sans poser la question des sectes. Impossible de poser la question « Qu'est-ce qu'une secte ? » sans l'éclairer à la lumière du droit positif. Pour le médiologue comme pour le philosophe, le dossier juridique, s'il ne dit pas l'alpha et l'oméga, constitue un point de passage obligé, quelles que soient les réserves à faire par ailleurs. C'est dans cet esprit que nous publions l'instructive et originale intervention de M. Leschi, chef du Bureau des cultes au ministère de l'Intérieur, devant la commission d'enquête sur les dérives sectaires de l'Assemblée nationale.

Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. On the Problematic of Sectarianism -- 2. Mapping Terms: Towards Analytical Conceptualisation -- 3. Confessionalisation as a Prelude to Sectarianisation -- 4. Is a Ta'ifa a Community? -- 5. Firqa and Iftiraq in Islam -- 6. Social Conflict, Sects, and Foreign Intervention: The Tanzimat and the Events of 1860 -- 7. Ibn Khaldun's 'Asabiyya and Sects -- 8. Sectarianism, its Historicity, and Some Ethical Implications -- 9. Nothing Eternal About It -- 10. Is Modern Sectarianism a Product of Secularisation? -- 11. Community to Imagined Community, Social Sectarianism to Political Sectarianism -- 12. Sectarianism from Popular Participation in the Public Sphere to a Barrier to Participation -- 13. Majorities, Minorities, and Tolerance -- Conclusion -- Index -- Back Cover.