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Exclusive Brethren

British

plural noun

one of the two main divisions of the Plymouth Brethren, which, in contrast to the Open Brethren, restricts its members' contacts with those outside the sect

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Rebecca Stott, meanwhile, revealed what it was like growing up in a cult in England called the Exclusive Brethren, a journey she chronicles in her memoir In the Days of Rain: A Daughter, a Father, a Cult.

From Slate

We were called the Exclusive Brethren.

From Slate

A family memoir about her life - and her late father's life - inside the Exclusive Brethren, a Christian fundamentalist separatist cult.

From BBC

Rebecca Stott, took the biography award for In The Days of Rain, a family memoir about her life - and her late father's life - inside the Exclusive Brethren, a Christian fundamentalist separatist cult.

From BBC

Rebecca Stott grew up in the 1960s as part of the Exclusive Brethren, where her father, Roger Stott, served as a high-ranking minister.

From Washington Times

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