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Quietism

noun
1.
A form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God.





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"Quietism" Quotes from Famous Books



... peace which has prevailed since then throughout Southern India, at a time when whole provinces in other parts have been honeycombed with sedition, is one of the most encouraging features of the situation. There is in the Hinduism of Southern India a peculiar element of conservative quietism to which lawlessness in any form seems to be repugnant. Probably also the racial cry of "Arya for the Aryans" raised in the North of India as the watchword of an anti-British movement is not calculated to rouse the blood of a purely Dravidian ...
— Indian Unrest • Valentine Chirol


Words linked to "Quietism" :   religious mysticism, quietist, mysticism


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