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What does pietism mean?

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Noun
  1. (Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the 17th and 18th centuries, calling for a return to practical and devout Christianity.
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Paul, in a manner certainly inconsistent with the anti-intellectual pietism of our day, places the emphasis on our thinking.
Franciscan-Clarean contemplation, far from being a pious pietism, is a process of identification with the Lord.
He was seminal in establishing Pure Land pietism as one of the central forms of Buddhism in Japan.
Both built pietism into their systems, believing that society must be converted before the state could be conquered.
The devotional theism of Vishishtadvaita, very influential in modern India, resembles the pietism and mysticism of the Western religions.
During the half-century after J. S. Bach's death in 1750, musical standards in Lutheranism declined rapidly in the face of triumphant Enlightenment rationalism and pietism.

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