pietism

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He “decries Irish society’s conservatism, pietism and blinkered nationalism” in his writing, according to an essay from the Irish Emigration Museum curator Jessica Traynor.

From The Guardian • Oct. 17, 2019

Father James is a modest, deeply humane man of the cloth: gruff, taciturn, utterly innocent of the cruelty, corruption and overweening pietism for which the Catholic church has been criticized in recent years.

From Washington Post

A few weeks ago, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall objected to some of the pietism attending the 200th anniversary of the Constitution.

From Time Magazine Archive

The girl is obviously intended to personify what is false in Spanish pietism; the uncle signifies the sickness of the ruling classes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mysticism and pietism yield to more consistent Catholicism; dogmatism, without symbolical books, which lose their authority where the press is free, succumbs to philosophy.

From The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli by Hottinger, Johann Jakob