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(noun) a movement intended to bring about religious reforms
religious movement
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religious movement
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(noun) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front"
movement, front, social movement
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(noun) 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
Islamism
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(noun) a religious movement by Arab Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iraq that is opposed to the Usuli; "Akhbari Shiism has never promoted political control"
Akhbari
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(noun) a religious movement by Persian Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iran that is opposed to the Akhbari; "Usuli Shiism produced the politically active caste of priests that is a distinctive feature of Iranian Shiism"
Usuli
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(noun) 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
Counter Reformation
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(noun) a movement aimed to promote understanding and cooperation among Christian churches; aimed ultimately at universal Christian unity
ecumenical movement
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(noun) 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
Gallicanism
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(noun) a large missionary Hasidic movement known for their hospitality, technological expertise, optimism and emphasis on religious study
Lubavitch, Chabad, Chabad-Lubavitch, Lubavitch movement
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(noun) 19th-century movement in the Church of England opposing liberal tendencies
Oxford movement
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(noun) 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion
Pietism
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(noun) 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
Protestant Reformation, Reformation
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(noun) a fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government; "the Taliban enforced a strict Muslim code of behavior"
Taleban, Taliban
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(noun) a group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans
Nation of Islam
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