anticlericalism
Against religious authority
Anticlericalism is opposition to the influence of religious clergy in public affairs, particularly their involvement in politics, education, and civil institutions.
The stance holds that religious authorities should be confined to spiritual matters rather than wielding secular power.
Anticlericalism has been a major force in European history, especially in France, where it shaped debates over church-state separation: The revolutionary government's anticlericalism led to the seizure of church properties.
Reason-based belief formation
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- atheismRejection of deities
- agnosticismDoubt about divine existence
irreligion · enlightenment · skepticism · antitheism · materialism · naturalism · empiricism · reason
Separation of faith, state
- disestablishmentWithdrawal of official status
- church-stateReligion-government relationship
- separationState of being apart
- republicanismGovernment by elected officials
liberalism · radicalism · secularization · democratization · egalitarianism · emancipation · decentralization · anti-hierarchy
Adoption of current methods
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
- progressivismPhilosophy advocating societal reform
- transformationThorough change in form
- renewalMaking current again
restructuring · disestablishmentarianism · revision · adaptation · innovation · liberation · reformation · abolition
freethought
Reason-based belief formation
- rationalismReason as knowledge source
- humanismPhilosophy prioritizing earthly reason
- atheismRejection of deities
agnosticism · irreligion · enlightenment · skepticism · antitheism · materialism · naturalism · empiricism · reason · critique
secularism
Separation of faith, state
- disestablishmentWithdrawal of official status
- church-stateReligion-government relationship
- separationState of being apart
republicanism · liberalism · radicalism · secularization · democratization · egalitarianism · emancipation · decentralization · anti-hierarchy · laity
modernization
Adoption of current methods
- liberalizationReducing state economic controls
- progressivismPhilosophy advocating societal reform
- transformationThorough change in form
renewal · restructuring · disestablishmentarianism · revision · adaptation · innovation · liberation · reformation · abolition · disentanglement
- church-statechurch-state, separation, church-state separation, establishment clause, religious accommodation
- French CatholicismCatholic Church, Roman Catholicism, Notre-Dame, Sacre-Coeur, Joan of Arc
- VoltaireVoltaire, Candide, El Dorado, satirical novels, novella
- Third RepublicNational Assembly, Dreyfus Affair, separation of church and state, presidential powers, bicameral legislature
- papacypontiff, Pope, pope, Holy See, papal election
- Spanish HistoryReconquista, Spanish Inquisition, Spanish Empire, conquistadors, Catholic Monarchs
anticlericalismclericalism
Clergy's political overreach
anticlericalismpiety
Sincere religious devotion
devoutness · religious devotion · devotion · religiosity · orthodoxy
anticlericalismtheocracy
Rule by religious authority
establishmentarianism · religious establishment · state religion · religious nationalism
clergy, clerical, cleric, clerics, clericalism, anticlerical