counterreligion

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

counter- +‎ religion

Noun[edit]

counterreligion (plural counterreligions)

  1. A religion that opposes another religion.
    • 2009, Jan Assmann, The Price of Monotheism:
      Secondary religions or counterreligions are duplicitous: they bear encrypted within themselves the paganism they ostensibly reject.
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