Sentences with phrase «for obscurantism»

Derrida would laugh at me, the book thrower, for having joined a profession notorious for obscurantism.

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It became a synonym for blind ignorance and obscurantism.

It calls for the fostering of values that «have a universal appeal» and that could help to «eliminate obscurantism, religious fanaticism, violence, superstition, and fatalism.»

If Christianity wants to avoid the charge of outright obscurantism or willful fanaticism, all four claimed, it must justify itself before the bar of nature; and if revelation has any meaning whatever, besides being otherwise an expression of ethnic or religious chauvinism, it must be seen as being merely a pedagogical repetition for the peasant mind «set of the Book of Nature.

Demographers criticized the survey on methodological grounds for exaggerating the numbers of Orthodox Jews in the area, while representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism and secular Jews warned that, if the survey's figures were correct, the New York Jewish community was leaving a golden age of liberal activism and intellectual modernism and entering a period of social insularity and religious obscurantism.

And thus, our years in review may be construed for their difference — a difference marked by contrarianism, anachronism, obscurantism, compulsion, and, above all, variety.

Adoniou's methods and advocacy can be seen as an attempt to find a space between two extremes — the conservatives, who are nostalgic for a return to 1950s - style grammar instruction, and the parts of the Academy that still favour obscurantism.

I've been accused of obscurantism, closet climate denialism and willful misdirection — all for the crime of insufficiently attesting to the dangers of a warming trend I do not deny.