religious conservatism
Doctrinal adherence movement
Religious conservatism is commitment to traditional beliefs and practices within a faith tradition, often resisting modern reinterpretation of scripture or doctrine.
It typically emphasizes moral absolutes, established rituals, and institutional authority.
The term appears across religions: religious conservatism in Islam, Jewish religious conservatism.
In American politics, religious conservatism usually refers to traditionalist Christianity and its influence on social policy—opposition to abortion, same-sex marriage, and secularization of public life.
- theocracyRule by religious authority
- orthodoxyAdherence to accepted beliefs
- patriarchyMale-dominated social order
- dogmaUnchallengeable official beliefs
- blasphemy lawsProhibitions on religious insult
modesty · dress code · gender roles · chastity · abstinence only · fundamentalism · fire and brimstone · piety · obedience · family values · public morality · culture wars · divine revelation · rituals · creeds · evangelism · repentance · prayer
- fundamentalismfundamentalism, inerrancy, literalism, dogmatism, strict interpretation
- American ChristianityBaptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Episcopalians
- theopoliticstheocracy, Christian right, separation of church and state, established church, divine right
- Wahhabismtawhid, shirk, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, iconoclasm
religious conservatismsecular humanism
Nonreligious ethical philosophy
secularism · atheism · irreligion · freethought · antitheism
religious conservatismliberation theology
Religious movement championing the marginalized
religious left · social gospel · Christian socialism · religious pluralism
religious conservatismReform Judaism
Progressive Jewish religious movement
spiritual but not religious · syncretism · mysticism · deism
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