Sectarian Discourse: Form of Perversion in Action in Our Modernity

Abstract

Sectarians are primarily followers of a master in whom power and supposed knowledge are concentrated. The sectarian group may simply be a group of eccentrics, people living on the fringes of society, or people with non-standard religious beliefs, such as various Protestant sects; but a sect may also be a group that constitutes itself in opposition to the law of the community and functions in a perverse manner. It is this type of group function that will interest me: dangerous groups that are founded on subjugation of their members by means of a 'sectarian discourse' for the aggrandisement of destructive or perverse and dangerous leaders, people who disguise as law what is fundamentally a negation of law by means of a sectarian discourse, which is the real weapon that gives them power. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved)