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

Taking the other side, I also became a regular reader of the weekly periodical the Christian Commonwealth, which was published about this time to counteract what they termed the heterodoxy of the Christian World.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.