clericalism

Noun

Meaning

An excessive devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order; undue influence of the clergy; sacerdotalism.

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There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism. John Carroll

Winstanley, deeming that property is corrupting, opposed clericalism, political power and privilege. Source: Internet

This axis is less significant in the United States (where views of the role of religion tend to be subsumed into the general left–right axis) than in Europe (where clericalism versus anti-clericalism is much less correlated with the left–right spectrum). Source: Internet

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