Concept
Religious fanaticism
Overview
Religious fanaticism or religious extremism is a designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could otherwise be expressed in one's other involvements and participation, including employment, role, and partisan affinities. In psychiatry, the term hyperreligiosity is used. Historically, the term was applied in Christian antiquity to denigrate non-Christian religions, and subsequently acquired its current usage with the Age of Enlightenment.
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Voltaire, Index of the PG Works of Voltaire in English
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But into what dismal convulsions did she throw all Europe, in order to maintain it! On the other hand, our sectaries, who were formerly such dangerous bigots, are now become very free reasoners; and the _Quakers_ seem to approach nearly the only regular body of _Deists_ in the universe, the _literati_ or the disciples of Confucius in China.[1]
David Hume, Essays
Close in meaning to Religious fanaticism; the term itself is not named.
But so very broad a use of the word “religion” would be inconvenient, however defensible it might remain on logical grounds. There are trifling, sneering attitudes even towards the whole of life; and in some men these attitudes are final and systematic.
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Close in meaning to Religious fanaticism; the term itself is not named.
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