heterodoxy

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“This is a worldwide, but certainly American, trend toward heterodoxy — toward individuals cooking up their own spiritual or religious stew and cooking it up their way,” Burklo said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2019

Hayat studies the history of social movements, with a focus on the nineteenth century, and he argued that, despite their political heterodoxy, the gilets jaunes are remarkably unified.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 13, 2018

"I'm hearing, 'if you don't believe her claim, you are re-victimising her'. Since scepticism of a claim is heterodoxy, people will accept a claim either blindly or just to avoid being ostracised."

From BBC • Oct. 3, 2018

Likewise, the contest isn’t a race between a liberal or a moderate, or between heterodoxy and orthodoxy.

From Slate • Jun. 12, 2017

In France, the Calvinistic discipline, though it had not suppressed heterodoxy, at least made its expression very guarded.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles