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"Religious sects" as a book category covers works that focus on distinct, often smaller or offshoot groups within larger religious traditions or on new religious movements. It includes historical and sociological studies, theological explanations of distinctive beliefs and practices, ethnographies and journalistic investigations, memoirs and testimonies from former or current members, and both critical exposés and sympathetic portrayals. Books in this category explore formation, leadership, ritual life, community dynamics, schisms, revival movements, and interactions with wider society and law, and they may be academic or popular in tone. Because the term "sect" can be used pejoratively, the category also commonly houses titles labeled as new religious movements, splinter groups, or cults, and overlaps with religion, anthropology, history, and biography.

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