RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does religious movement mean? 

• RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT (noun)
  The noun RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT has 1 sense:

1. a movement intended to bring about religious reforms

  Familiarity information: RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A movement intended to bring about religious reforms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("religious movement" is a kind of...):

front; movement; social movement (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "religious movement"):

Islamism (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)

Akhbari (a religious movement by Arab Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iraq that is opposed to the Usuli)

Usuli (a religious movement by Persian Shiite Muslims in 17th century Iran that is opposed to the Akhbari)

Counter Reformation (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)

ecumenical movement (a movement aimed to promote understanding and cooperation among Christian churches; aimed ultimately at universal Christian unity)

Gallicanism (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)

Chabad; Chabad-Lubavitch; Lubavitch; Lubavitch movement (a large missionary Hasidic movement known for their hospitality, technological expertise, optimism and emphasis on religious study)

Oxford movement (19th-century movement in the Church of England opposing liberal tendencies)

Pietism (17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion)

Protestant Reformation; Reformation (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)

Taleban; Taliban (a fundamentalist Islamic militia; in 1995 the Taliban militia took over Afghanistan and in 1996 took Kabul and set up an Islamic government)

Nation of Islam (a group of militant Black Americans who profess Islamic religious beliefs and advocate independence for Black Americans)