But over the past decade or so, major schisms have emerged.
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Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2026
The history of religion, with its thousands of schisms and reformations, is full of pilgrims who, rather than discard their relationship with their sacred text, have found purpose, clarity, and community through defiance.
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