religious movement
English Thesaurus
1. a movement intended to bring about religious reforms (noun.group)
| hypernym | : | front, movement, social movement, |
| definition | : | a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | islamism, |
| definition | : | a fundamentalist Islamic revivalist movement generally characterized by moral conservatism and the literal interpretation of the Koran and the attempt to implement Islamic values in all aspects of life (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | akhbari, |
| definition | : | a religious movement by Arab Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iraq that is opposed to the Usuli (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | usuli, |
| definition | : | a religious movement by Persian Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iran that is opposed to the Akhbari (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | counter reformation, |
| definition | : | the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected); many leaders were Jesuits (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | ecumenical movement, |
| definition | : | a movement aimed to promote understanding and cooperation among Christian churches; aimed ultimately at universal Christian unity (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | gallicanism, |
| definition | : | a religious movement originating among the French Roman Catholic clergy that favored the restriction of papal control and the achievement by each nation of individual administrative autonomy of the church (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | oxford movement, |
| definition | : | 19th-century movement in the Church of England opposing liberal tendencies (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | pietism, |
| definition | : | 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | protestant reformation, reformation, |
| definition | : | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | taleban, taliban, |
| definition | : | a fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government (noun.group) |
| hyponym | : | nation of islam, |
| definition | : | a group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans (noun.group) |
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