obscurantism
IPA: ʌbskjˈʊrʌntɪzʌm
noun
- A state of opposition to human progress or enlightenment.
- Deliberate obscurity or vagueness.
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Examples of "obscurantism" in Sentences
- Мракобесие is usually rendered as obscurantism, which isn't always a satisfying translation.
- Economists strangely seem even more prone to this kind of obscurantism than the rest of the world.
- Cultural relativism undermines the moral certitude of our principal enemy, Catholicism (aka "obscurantism")
- Instead, our problem is becoming obscurantism, which is a deliberate hiding of the facts by vested interests who know they are injuring us.
- Sorcery, protection from sorcery, sorcery accusations, and spiritual healing were all relegated to the category of "obscurantism" and forbidden.
- The mistake I made was to use the word 'obscurantism' for the common tendency among Orthodox to hold, in my words, that "nothing can be well studied while prescinding from divine revelation."
- TIME magazine which has published numerous essays exploring the relationship between faith, prayer and healing says that even a couple of decades ago, the scientific community would not have dared to propose a double-blind, controlled study of something as intangible as prayer because the scientific temper is all about trying to ridding yourself of remnants of mysticism and obscurantism which is what many people think faith and prayer is – a lot of mumbo jumbo.
- The initial imposition of a Bavarian administration soon after Independence, the effort to shed traces of 'obscurantism' and the 'barbarity' of Ottoman rule; the Western bourgeois invasion of local customs and traditions; the long-standing effort to reconcile the Ottoman past with the legacy of Greece as the centre of European civilisation; and the intense conflict between right and left visions of Greek society since the Second World War have all generated tensions about national identity that have often found expression through various treatments of the 'woman question'.
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