Exoterism

Quick meaning: Exoterism is a noun meaning The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions.

Meaning

The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions.

Example Sentences

2003. Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies, Indiana University Press, page 248, In their exoterism, they showed civic sense is most demanding.

1919. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science, The Aryan Theosophical Press, page 535, The thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism of the temples.

1875. Gordon Campbell, Wilson Edward William Morrison, E B Iwan-Müller, Frederick Sanders Pulling, Francis Griffin Stokes, The Shotover Papers, Or, Echoes from Oxford, University of Oxford, page 73, It is not however easy -- perhaps it is impossible -- to reveal a discovery so wonderful by popular exoterism on the point: posterity will amplify and expound in dry but acumonious logic what I have here only to put forth in its great Severity and Profundity.

Word Forms

• exoterisms

Antonyms for exoterism

Common opposites include esoterism.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include exoterics, esoterism, spirituality, exoterica, xenotheology, nomism.

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