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

Kanye has long worked with songwriters — something that, because it’s perceived as heterodoxy, is rarely discussed openly.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2018

In the London Magazine of October, 1823, he repudiated at considerable length the compliments thrust upon him at the expense of his friends, and denied the arraignment of drunkenness and heterodoxy.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette