Heterodoxy vs Superstition - What's the difference?
heterodoxy | superstition |
The quality of being heterodox.
A heterodox belief, creed, or teaching.
* 1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 288:
A belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way.
As nouns the difference between heterodoxy and superstition
is that heterodoxy is the quality of being heterodox while superstition is superstition.heterodoxy
English
Noun
(heterodoxies)- A genuine first-hand religious experience like this is bound to be a heterodoxy to its witnesses, the prophet appearing as a mere lonely madman.