heterodoxy
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“This is a worldwide, but certainly American, trend toward heterodoxy — toward individuals cooking up their own spiritual or religious stew and cooking it up their way,” Burklo said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2019
There’s still value placed on heterodoxy here at Slate.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2019
"I'm hearing, 'if you don't believe her claim, you are re-victimising her'. Since scepticism of a claim is heterodoxy, people will accept a claim either blindly or just to avoid being ostracised."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2018
At its peak, broadcast TV was derided for its shallowness, for its crass commercialism, for the way it celebrated conformity and rejected heterodoxy, and mostly for often not being very creative or entertaining.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2017
At Bonn he was caught in the current of heterodoxy that was then sweeping through the universities.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth
But there are all sorts of complexities and heterodoxies that are suffocated by uncomplicated embrace.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2022
To some degree, “populism” is another word for heterodoxies that seem doomed to fail.
From Economist ● Jul. 20, 2017
I stayed because I was incredibly curious and thought at least I could work on my novel, a Western set in “the American subconscious,” a Jungian wonderland of heterodoxies.
From Salon ● May 31, 2015
Who will be courageous enough to confront the public with such brave heterodoxies as “Not all cultures are equally conducive to human flourishing”? The Intellectual Dark Web, that’s who.
From Slate
Poor man, it had turned out he could not get his Academy Diploma, after all,—owing again to intricacies and heterodoxies.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle
