Crossword-Solution: FETISHISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fetishism | n. | The doctrine or practice of belief in fetiches. |
| Fetishism | n. | Excessive devotion to one object or one idea; abject superstition; blind adoration. |
| Fetishism | a. | Alt. of Fetishistic |
We have 8 clues for the answer “FETISHISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Belief in magical objects. | 1 answer |
| stone-worship | 1 answer |
| zoomorphism | 2 answers |
| iconolatry | 4 answers |
| paganism | 4 answers |
| Deification | 5 answers |
| heathenism | 8 answers |
| idolatry | 40 answers |
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Sentences with FETISHISM (5)
The ruling class, in particular, continued to follow the religion of Islam, but it is generally believed that the masses of the population remained faithful to the more traditional West African religions based on fetishism and ancestor worship.
Fetishism and magic seem to have preceded inward piety historically—at least our records of inward piety do not reach back so far.
And if fetishism and magic be regarded as stages of religion, one may say that personal religion in the inward sense and the genuinely spiritual ecclesiasticisms which it founds are phenomena of secondary or even tertiary order.
But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists—for instance, Jevons and Frazer—expressly oppose “religion” and “magic” to each other, it is certain that the whole system of thought which leads to magic, fetishism, and the lower superstitions may just as well be called primitive science as called primitive religion.
And the Fetishism, Ancestor-worship, Hero-worship, and Demonology of primitive savages are all, I believe, different manners of expression of their belief in ghosts, and of the anthropomorphic interpretation of out-of-the- way events which is its concomitant.
Quotes with FETISHISM (3)
[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial objects and can flatter a certain fetishism of mine: for this 'me' which like knowledge, which nourishes a kind of amorous preference for it. In the same way, I like certain biographical features which, in a writer's life, delight me as much as certain photographs; I have called these features 'biographemes'; Photography has the same relation to History that the biographeme has to biography.
The past has given us much too many bad answers for us not to see that the mistakes were in the questions themselves. There is no need to choose between the fetishism of spontaneity and the organization control; between the "come one, come all" of activist networks and the discipline of hierarchy; between acting desperately now and waiting desperately for later; between bracketing that which is to be lived and experimented in the name of paradise that seems more and more like…
The rise of feminist underpants is a weird twist on Karl Marx's theory of commodity fetishism, wherein consumer products once divorced from inherent use value are imbued with all sorts of meaning. To brand something as feminist doesn't involve ideology, or labor, or policy, or specific actions or processes. It's just a matter of saying, 'This is feminist because we say it is.
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