What's the difference between religionism and zeal?

Religionism


Definition:

  • (n.) The practice of, or devotion to, religion.
  • (n.) Affectation or pretense of religion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The feedback I have had reveals how accepting people are of different cultures and religions.
  • (2) She is not: "Religion has nothing to do with spirituality."
  • (3) To organise society as an individualistic war of one against another was barbaric, while the other models, slavishly following the rules of one religion or one supreme leader, denied freedom.
  • (4) Chapter three Administration of the camps The preparatory camp is the first home and school of the mujahid in which his military and jihadi training sessions take place and he undergoes sufficient education in matters of his religion, life and jihad.
  • (5) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
  • (6) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
  • (7) The concept of a head of state as a "defender" of any sort of faith is uncomfortable in an age when religion is again acquiring a habit of militancy.
  • (8) In many of the special nursing homes for aged, not a few aged women practiced activities uniquely associated with traditional religion on strongly reflecting the fact that endemic religion is deeply embedded in their thinking.
  • (9) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
  • (10) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
  • (11) It quickly became evident that there was an opportunity to take the idea beyond a one-off event between Anglicans and Catholics and reach out to other religions, like the Muslim community.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The St Peter’s XI practise under the Vatican flag.
  • (12) He said the planned commission on multiculturalism would not threaten anyone's culture or religion.
  • (13) But flat-out discrimination based on religion or ethnicity or country of origin has never served us well.” The One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, has welcomed Trump’s move, but questioned what Turnbull had to give to secure the new administration’s backing for the refugee resettlement agreement.
  • (14) While there was a slight tendency for responses to be affected by socioeconomic status and religion, the results were not statistically significant, as was true for the level of injury to the child.
  • (15) They may be considered blasphemous by some, but banning speech based on criticism or so-called defamation of religion is incompatible with international human rights standards.
  • (16) 'If they want a war of religions, we are ready,' Hassan Sharaf, an imam in Nablus, said in his sermon.
  • (17) Central to the whole project was a patient fascination with religion, represented, in particular, in his attempt to understand the revolutionary power of puritanism.
  • (18) Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic treatment seems to be close to the jewish religion.
  • (19) All of this has been accompanied by ideological tightening across academia, religion, even state media and officialdom itself: a sort of sterilisation of the environment.
  • (20) Some of this stems from confusing spirituality with religion.

Zeal


Definition:

  • (n.) Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor.
  • (n.) A zealot.
  • (v. i.) To be zealous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
  • (2) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
  • (3) The second approach for a UK-listed drug company by a US rival underlined the deal-making zeal that has seized the pharmaceutical sector.
  • (4) Piano, who is conscious of having grown up in a generation that fought to preserve Italy's exquisite historical town centres from the bulldozing zeal of modernisers, is grateful that crucial battle was waged and – to a certain extent – won.
  • (5) There they discovered a little-known club called Amnesia and a DJ called Alfredo and instead of coming back with a few out-of-focus snaps, Paul Oakenfold, Johnny Walker, Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway returned home exhausted but burning with a missionary zeal.
  • (6) The Tea Party represents a serious strand in American public life – old-world fundamentalist in its exclusivity, self-righteousness and religious zeal.
  • (7) Like the Saudis, the Qataris dismiss accusations they helped create Isis by recklessly financing and arming Islamist rebels in Syria in their zeal to see Assad go.
  • (8) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
  • (9) Peter Hain had replaced John Hutton as secretary of state for work and pensions, which was a considerable downgrade so far as reforming zeal was concerned.
  • (10) Once they got to grips with Leicester’s zeal, Villa began to demonstrate the greater guile.
  • (11) Circle's chief executive, Ali Parsa, said: "At a time when some healthcare commentators say the solution for small district general hospitals is simply to merge or be shut down, we believe the NHS Midlands and East's courage and zeal for innovation will enable us to show how clinician and staff control can provide a more sustainable alternative."
  • (12) The zeal for developing and marketing newer fluoroquinolones closely parallels that of the cephalosporins for the last 10 years.
  • (13) But Dr Steven Murdoch, a researcher at the computer laboratory of Cambridge University, said Chinese authorities have been using such methods with increasing zeal.
  • (14) You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago,” it said in a statement emailed to journalists with unusual zeal and which also repeated the Trump trope of “the dishonest media”.
  • (15) Their anger has so far been contained to the country's Sunni strongholds, but it contains a counter-revolutionary zeal prompting observers to fear that today's civil disobedience could be the start of something far worse.
  • (16) Putin said recently he could not rule out an amnesty of those involved in the case, which analysts say has been pursued with such zeal in order to discourage street protests against the regime.
  • (17) With great zeal, this pioneer used fluoroscopy for early detection of tuberculosis and other life-threatening chest disorders.
  • (18) The government's response to the rise in self-employment has been to praise the UK's entrepreneurial zeal, while increasingly promoting self-employment as an option to job-seekers."
  • (19) "Maybe she has genuine philanthropic zeal, but maybe she just wants to sell more records.
  • (20) He’s also a convert to Catholicism whose conservative zeal possibly outstrips the pope’s, a master of the upper-middlebrow reactionary style originated by William F Buckley, and the owner of a Twitter account specializing in bad predictions and more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger sermonizing.