What's the difference between quietism and quietistic?

Quietism


Definition:

  • (n.) Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
  • (n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Installed 21 years ago today, in the midst of the cold war and on the anniversary of the Nagasaki bombing, the shark apparently depicted how even suburban quietism was at threat from atomic holocaust.
  • (2) Debt-laden graduates who submit to the vocational logic of contemporary higher education, and then enter a ruthless job market, are castigated for their self-obsession and political quietism.
  • (3) It is not only 18- to 30-year-olds who vote for ideals; there is among others a substantial Christian constituency that, given the choice, would put social justice before quietism as it did in 1945.
  • (4) There had actually been a time when, on account of his quietism, the ideological challenge he posed to militant secular nationalism, and his opposition to the armed struggle espoused by the Palestine Liberation Organisation, the Israelis looked benevolently on Yassin and his works.

Quietistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the one hand, a relative quietist still, Yassin did not want to throw the Muslim Brotherhood wholeheartedly into the new struggle, endangering everything he and his associates had constructed with such exertions and sacrifice.
  • (2) The popularity of revivalist, if quietist and apolitical, groups such as the Tablighi Jamaat as well as a steady flow of young French Muslims to Egypt or Gulf States to study in religious schools was a serious concern, but major protests in 2006 following the publication of cartoons supposedly ridiculing Mohammed were entirely peaceful.
  • (3) They will have to scale this back and appreciate that some people wish to live highly orthodox, segregated, and quietist lives.

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