Christianism

English

Etymology

From Latin christianismus; compare French christianisme.

Noun

Christianism (countable and uncountable, plural Christianisms)

The Christian religion; Christianity.
The Christian world; Christendom.
(US, derogatory) A political ideology centered around Christian fundamentalism. [from 21st c.]
- May 7, 2006, Andrew Sullivan, ‘My Problem with Chistianism’, TIME Magazine:
  Christianism is an ideology, politics, an ism. The distinction between Christian and Christianist echoes the distinction we make between Muslim and Islamist. Muslims are those who follow Islam. Islamists are those who want to wield Islam as a political force and conflate state and mosque.
- 2007, ‎Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism, page 31:
  At its extreme, as in the Christian identity movement, Christianism merges with white supremacy.
- 2015, Stefan Borg, European Integration and the Problem of the State, page 129:
  Because I was always against any extremist ideology whether Islamism or Christianism or whatsoever.
- 2021, Jeffrey Haynes, Trump and the Politics of Neo-Nationalism:
  Christianism is characterised by overt, often extreme, anti-Islamism.

Synonyms

Christianity
Christendom

Related terms

Christianist
dominionism

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Christianism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Translations

Christian religion — see Christianity

Christian world — see Christendom

ideology centered around Christian fundamentalism

Finnish: kristillismi
German: Christianismus (de) m

References

“Christianism”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
“Christianism”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
“Christianism”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“Christianism” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2023.
WordReference.com: https://www.wordreference.com/definition/Christianism