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Term Location of origin Targeted demographic Meaning origin and notes References Campbellite: United States: Followers of Church of Christ: Followers of the Church of Christ, from American Restoration Movement leaders Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, the latter being one of two key people considered the founders of the movement.
Religious fanaticism (or the prefix ultra-being used with a religious term (such as ultra-Orthodox Judaism), or (especially when violence is involved) religious extremism) is a pejorative designation used to indicate uncritical zeal or obsessive enthusiasm that is related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism that could otherwise be expressed in ...
The Zealots were a "fourth sect", founded by Judas of Galilee (also called Judas of Gamala) in 6 CE against the Census of Quirinius, shortly after the Roman Empire declared what had most recently been the tetrarchy of Herod Archelaus to be a Roman province. According to Josephus, they "agree in all other things with the Pharisaic notions; but ...
Articles relating to the Zealots, a political movement in 1st-century Second Temple Judaism which sought to incite the people of Judea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the Holy Land by force of arms, most notably during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70).
Synonyms for hardliner include diehard, hawk, extremist, radical, fanatic, or zealot. The term is almost always relative to the Overton window of a given time and place. Examples by country
In the German development language, zealot is stated to be a synonym used for an "Eiferer" or fanatic. Specifically, the word likely originates in the "Synkretistischen" dispute, as a zealot in the context of German history during that time stands for the Orthodox Lutherans.
Zealot (Wildstorm), a member of the Wildcats fictional superhero team; Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, a book by Reza Aslan; Zealot: A Book About Cults, a book by Zo Thornely; The Zealot, an alternate title for the U.S. publication of Simon Scarrow's novel The Eagle in the Sand "Zealots", a song on Fugees' album The Score
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