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51Yiguan Dao — Sectarian religion The Yiguan Dao (Way of Unity) is a popular sect, which was founded in Shandong province in the 1920s by Zhang Tianran (Zhang Guangbi, 1889–1947). While Zhang gave it a new shape and organizational structure, the Yiguan Dao is… …
52sectarianism — sectarian ► ADJECTIVE 1) concerning or deriving from a sect or sects. 2) carried out on the grounds of membership of a sect or other group: sectarian killings. ► NOUN ▪ a member or follower of a sect. DERIVATIVES sectarianism noun …
53Falun gong — Sectarian religion As China ‘marketized’ its economy, opened to the outside world, and revised its national constitution in the interval between 1980 and 1986, there were several ‘fevers’ (re) or popular cultural enthusiasms that possessed urban… …
54Sectarianism — is bigotry, discrimination, prejudice or hatred arising from attaching importance to perceived differences between subdivisions within a group, such as between different denominations of a religion or the factions of a political movement. The… …
55Civil war in Iraq — Civil war/sectarian violence in Iraq Part of Iraq War and Iraqi insurgency Date February 2006 May 2008 …
56DEAD SEA SCROLLS — DEAD SEA SCROLLS, the popular designation given to collections of manuscript material found in 1947 and the following years in various caves west of the Dead Sea, notably at qumran , Murabbaʿāt , Khirbat Mird, together with en gedi and masada .… …
57List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001 — v · …
58Northern Ireland — a political division of the United Kingdom, in the NE part of the island of Ireland. 1,537,200; 5238 sq. mi. (13,565 sq. km). Cap.: Belfast. * * * Part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland occupying the northeastern portion …
59Drumcree conflict — Facing north towards Drumcree Church …
60Sunni-Shia relations — Sunni and Shia (or Shiite) are the two major denominations of Islam. The demographic breakdown between the two groups is difficult to assess and varies by source, but a good approximation is that 85% of the world s muslims are Sunni, and 15% are… …
