Is a religious group with practices and teachings outside the dominant cultural and religious traditions of a society. leadership is based on charismatic characteristics of the individual leader?

Yes because what he or she does determines the future of the group and how he or she does it is important

Texas’ gulf coastal plains are the western extension of the coastal plain extending from the atlantic ocean to beyond the rio grande. its characteristic rolling to hilly surface covered with a heavy growth of pine and hardwoods extends into east texas. in the increasingly arid west, however, its forests become secondary in nature, consisting largely of post oaks and, farther west, prairies and brushlands.