countercultist

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

countercultist (plural countercultists)

  1. Alternative form of counter-cultist.
    • 2008, "New Religious Movements, Christian", in William A. Dyrness & Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church, page 605.
      In the 1980s a cult controversy discussion arose between religion scholars, anticultists and countercultists. During this time some anticultists and countercultists came to regard religion scholars as adopting a pro-cult attitude in their shift away from using the church-cult-sect distinction.

Adjective[edit]

countercultist (comparative more countercultist, superlative most countercultist)

  1. Alternative form of counter-cultist.
    • 2016, Lawrence Kohlberg, "Revisions in the Theory and Practice of Moral Development", in Richard M. Lerner & Jasna Jovanovic, Cognitive and Moral Development, Academic Achievement in Adolescence.
      It is my hope that these chapters will illustrate, as well as encourage, the movement of moral development research beyond either a cultist focus on moral judgment stages or a countercultist critique of them to an examination of the enduring problems of moral development and moral education.