superstitious betydelse and definition

Exempel på superstitious

• As such, education took on a superstitious or magical quality.

• Over time, these individual superstitious beliefs become shared in local communities and thus become folk religions.

• The violence throughout the region from 1902 to 1937 was thus seen as a continuous stream of superstitious brutality.

• This is because the most elaborate and expensive rituals, such as fangyankou, can easily run afoul of state religious policy because of possible "superstitious" elements.

• That view would have struck them as ineradicably superstitious.

• It provides an alternative, wholly naturalistic account of the origin of some of the characteristically superstitious beliefs that have often been attributed to revelation.

• Meanwhile, plantation managers and evangelists sought to 'enlighten' them from their 'superstitious' and 'primitive' beliefs and discipline them into useful tools of labour.

• Perhaps surprisingly, there are no clear cases of heresy in these records, but some colourful practitioners of ' superstitious arts ' do appear.