spiritual heir
Ideological torch bearer
A spiritual heir is someone who continues another person's ideas, values, or mission rather than inheriting property or title.
The relationship is one of influence and succession in thought or purpose: She considered herself the spiritual heir to the civil rights leaders of the 1960s.
Unlike a legal heir, the connection is philosophical or ideological rather than familial.
- successorOne who replaces another
- next in linePositioned to succeed immediately
- legacyWhat's passed down
- discipleCommitted follower of teaching
- true believerCompletely committed adherent
protégé · mantle · passing the torch · lineage · torch · apostle · devotee · follower · inner circle · chosen · chosen one · anointed · tradition · continuation · bloodline · descendant · apprentice · wisdom
- Sufismtariqa, fana, sufi, Sufism, dervish
- followersfollowers, conformist, disciples, devotees, adherents
- tulkusDalai Lama, recognition ceremony, enthronement
spiritual heirnatural heir
One who inherits by birth
direct descendant · heir apparent · legal heir · offspring · blood relative
spiritual heirapostate
One who renounces faith
defector · repudiator · antithesis · nemesis
spiritual, spiritually, spirituality, spirit, spirits, spirited, spiritless, spiritism, spiritualism