Essential insights into and unexpected details about the world’s great sects.

From the Elvis Religion to the Nation of Islam, from Kabbalah to Dreamtime, Druidry to Opus Dei, Satanism to the Church of England, and Jedi Knights to the Church of Country Sports, this is a non-scholarly compendium for the intellectually curious.

Great Sects gives nugget of information about the largest, smallest, oldest and strangest beliefs, faiths and religions.

‘There is really only one religion, though there are 100 versions of it’

George Bernard Shaw, 1898