According to the Global Christian Research Center, there are more than 635 Christian denominations in the United States alone (Wilson, p. 145). Why from religion there are many different sects as they came from the same foundation. How and why the Christian church first split into sects. Thus, Mr. Ted A. Campbell, an assistant professor of church history at Duke University explains the sect as follows. "...... People who start new sects soon do not intend to do this, sects are generally formal and the final result of various theological / social / political / church movements formed over the years is.
American Christian sects are usually divided into three categories: evangelical Protestantism, mainstream Protestantism, and Catholic church. There are also Christian sects not belonging to any of these groups, such as Orthodox Church and Orthodox Church, but they are much smaller. According to the 2004 survey of the United States, the proportion of these groups is 26.3% (Evangelical), 22% (Catholic), and 16% (main Protestant). According to the US statistical summary, according to a 2001 survey on religious identity of the adult population, the proportion of these groups was 28.6% (Evangelical), 24.5% (Catholic) and 13.9% (Main Line) Protestant .
Most Europeans call themselves Christians and are divided into many sects. Christian sects are usually divided into three categories: Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant (including diverse groups of Lutheran, Calvinist, and British Church, and Baptist, Methodist, Evangelical, Five) sect 10 days etc). In most of the modern history, European culture is strongly influenced by Christian faith, almost the same as Christianity. Christian culture is one of the main forces influencing Western civilization, such as philosophy, art, music, science, social structure, architecture. The influence of Christianity civilization includes social welfare, founding hospital, economics (as professional ethics as Protestant), political architecture, literature and family life