anti-clerical
Opposing church authority
Anti-clerical describes opposition to the influence of religious clergy in public affairs, especially politics and education.
The stance targets institutional religious power rather than religious belief itself: anti-clerical laws separating church and state, The revolution had a strongly anti-clerical character.
Also spelled anticlerical.
Separation of faith, state
- separationState of being apart
- republicanismGovernment by elected officials
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
- Jacobin1790s French extremist
disestablishment · radical · reformist · legislature · constitution · state · nationalism · revolution
Late-1700s republican upheaval
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- BismarckPrussia's unifying statesman
- confiscationSeizure by authority
- expropriationGovernment taking private property
dissolution · suppression · expulsion · Jesuits · monasteries · church lands · nationalization · Mexican Revolution
secularism
Separation of faith, state
- separationState of being apart
- republicanismGovernment by elected officials
- liberalismPhilosophy valuing reform, tolerance
Jacobin · disestablishment · radical · reformist · legislature · constitution · state · nationalism · revolution · Enlightenment
French Revolution
Late-1700s republican upheaval
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- BismarckPrussia's unifying statesman
- confiscationSeizure by authority
expropriation · dissolution · suppression · expulsion · Jesuits · monasteries · church lands · nationalization · Mexican Revolution · persecution
church
Place of Christian worship
Vatican · papacy · monastery · convent · tithe · ecclesiastical · prelate · cardinal · parish · diocese
- VoltaireVoltaire, Candide, El Dorado, satirical novels, novella
anti-clericalclerical
Of office duties
theocratic · papist · establishmentarian · ecclesiastical · religionist