religious reform
Revising sacred traditions
Religious reform is the movement to change established religious institutions, doctrines, or practices.
It may involve returning to perceived original teachings, modernizing traditions, or correcting perceived corruption: The Protestant Reformation was the most consequential religious reform in Western history.
Reform movements arise within most major faiths when believers see a gap between institutional practice and spiritual ideals.
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- ecumenismMovement toward religious unity
- synodChurch governing assembly
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- liberation theologyReligious movement championing the marginalized
theologian · denomination · reinterpretation · interfaith dialogue · dogma · hierarchy · abolitionism · exegesis · pacifism · theses · human rights · papacy · papal infallibility · church doctrine · temperance · sect · confession · covenant
- reformreformist, democratic reforms, structural change, overhaul, revision
- ReformationMartin Luther, John Calvin, 95 Theses, Luther, Wittenberg
- monasteriesabbey, abbeys, abbot, abbots, abbess
- reformsderegulation, privatising, labor laws, labor reforms, liberalization
- social changecultural shift, social progress, social norms, cultural fusion, globalization
- Bengal RenaissanceBengal Renaissance, Calcutta, intellectual awakening, Bengal
religious reformreligious conservatism
Devout resistance to change
fundamentalism · Counter-Reformation · orthodoxy · tradition · preservationism
religious reformsecularization
Religion losing social significance
apostasy · irreligion · anticlericalism · dechristianization · atheism
religious reformschism
Formal organizational fracture
heresy · iconoclasm · apostasy