Exoterism - What does it mean?
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The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions.
*1875. Gordon Campbell, Wilson Edward William Morrison, E B Iwan-Müller, Frederick Sanders Pulling, Francis Griffin Stokes, The Shotover Papers, Or, Echoes from Oxford , University of Oxford, page 73,
*:It is not however easy -- perhaps it is impossible -- to reveal a discovery so wonderful by popular exoterism on the point: posterity will amplify and expound in dry but acumonious logic what I have here only to put forth in its great Severity and Profundity.
*1919. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science , The Aryan Theosophical Press, page 535,
*:The thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism''' of the temples...
*2003. Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies , Indiana University Press, page 248,
*:In their exoterism , they showed civic sense is most demanding.
exoterism
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(en noun)See also
* esoterismReferences
*exoterism, in ''New Encyclopedia of Islam.