Noun
a movement intended to bring about religious reforms
Source: WordNetBesides promoting a religious movement of unusual fervour, Sri Basaveshwara was also a great literary figure and was one of the makers of Kannada literature. Basava
They have built a vision of America that is radically - and a vision of this - and latched onto a religious movement or awakening that is radically different from previous awakenings...This one is very, very different. It is about taking control of secular society. Chris Hedges
I have a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, which is what you get if you are going to be a minister, although I was not ordained. For me, this is not a religious movement. It's a political movement. Chris Hedges
...the sudden rise of a religious movement in the West that restricts the eating of beef and thereby saves billions of tons of grain and provides a nourishing diet for the world as a whole. Alvin Toffler
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement. Soren Kierkegaard
No person can ever hope to gain an adequate idea of the religious movement which has been called by the name of Quakerism until he has discovered what is meant by the "Inner Light." Rufus M. Jones