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Definition of Religious movement

1. Noun. A movement intended to bring about religious reforms.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Religious Movement

Literary usage of Religious movement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1877)
"... us so many members of the leading Norman families, but mainly as illustrating the great religious movement which was Connexion then at work in Normandy, ..."

2. History of English Nonconformity from Wiclif to the Close of the Nineteenth by Henry William Clark (1911)
"Still more curious, however, is the fact that it was not by the religious movement which in the time of Henry the Eighth was going on in England, ..."

3. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"religious movement 15. JEWISH-GREEK PHILOSOPHY We have passed in review the different philosophical movements which succeeded the great systems of Plato and ..."

4. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"religious movement 15. JEWISH-GREEK PHILOSOPHY We have passed in review the different philosophical movements which succeeded the great systems of Plato and ..."

5. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1887)
"THE religious movement OF 1800 The camp-meeting, a characteristic of Methodism that has continued in a more or less modified form down to our own days, ..."

6. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1860)
"The History of the religious movement of the Eighteenth Century called Methodism: considered in its different Denominational Forms, and its Relations to ..."

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