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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We were called the Exclusive Brethren.

From Slate

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

In the Days of Rain by Rebecca Stott An account of growing up in the Exclusive Brethren, a separatist fundamentalist Christian cult in the UK.

From The Guardian

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

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