reformations
Sweeping institutional transformations
Reformations are acts of reforming—correcting, improving, or restructuring something that has gone wrong or grown corrupt.
The word most often appears in religious and political contexts: The Protestant Reformation spawned counter-reformations throughout Catholic Europe.
Any systematic effort to reshape institutions or practices qualifies: prison reformations, reformations of tax policy.
Post-schism Western Christian
- LutheranReformation-era Protestant denomination
- CalvinistPredestination theology adherent
- Martin LutherProtestant Reformation founder
- indulgencesExcessive self-granted pleasures
theses · schism · doctrine · ecclesiastical · papal · clergy · sacraments · heresy
Complete systematic repair
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- constitutionalHealth-promoting walk
- legislativeConcerning the creation of laws
- institutionalOf formal establishments
governance · democracy · parliament · monarchy · abolition · suffrage · emancipation · revolution
Thorough change in form
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
- renewalMaking current again
conversion · atonement · repentance · sobriety · self-improvement · turnaround · amendment · correction
Changes in position
- activismDirect effort for reform
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
- progressiveFavoring reform and innovation
civil rights · equality · justice · advocacy · grassroots · campaigns · humanitarian · welfare
Protestant
Post-schism Western Christian
- LutheranReformation-era Protestant denomination
- CalvinistPredestination theology adherent
- Martin LutherProtestant Reformation founder
indulgences · theses · schism · doctrine · ecclesiastical · papal · clergy · sacraments · heresy · excommunication
overhaul
Complete systematic repair
- restructuringRearranging an existing framework
- constitutionalHealth-promoting walk
- legislativeConcerning the creation of laws
institutional · governance · democracy · parliament · monarchy · abolition · suffrage · emancipation · revolution · amendment
transformation
Thorough change in form
- redemptionRecovery or moral restoration
- rehabilitationRecovery from injury/addiction
- recoveryRegaining what was lost
renewal · conversion · atonement · repentance · sobriety · self-improvement · turnaround · amendment · correction · betterment
movements
Changes in position
- activismDirect effort for reform
- temperanceHabitual moderation in behavior
- abolitionismMovement to end oppression
progressive · civil rights · equality · justice · advocacy · grassroots · campaigns · humanitarian · welfare · labor
- improvementsimprovement, fixes, betterment, enhancement, upgrade
reformationspreservation
Maintaining something's condition
conservations · maintenance · stagnation · status quo · entrenchment
reformationscorruptions
Debasements of purity
degradations · deteriorations · perversions · declines · debasements
reformationsrevolutions
Turnovers of power
destructions · abolitions · overthrows · annihilations · demolitions
- radical reformationSweeping foundational change
- Protestant ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- Counter ReformationRome's response to Protestantism
- English ReformationEngland's break from Catholicism
- religious reformationTransformative change in faith traditions