cultship

English

Etymology

From cult +‎ -ship.

Noun

cultship (uncountable)

  1. (religion) The state or condition of a cult.
    • 1976, Alvin Magid, Men in the Middle, page 26:
      Despite a long history of administrative autonomy within the Empire and strong cultural ties with the Jukun – the Arago and the Jukun had similar notions of divine chieftaincy and cultship – Keana became a tributary of Bauchi and Sokoto in the mid-nineteenth century and Doma a vassal of Zaria […] .
    • 1995, Public Culture:
      Citizenship rather than subjectship or kinship or cultship has defined the prerogatives and encumbrances of that membership, and the nation-state rather than the neighborhood or the city or the region established its scope.
    • 2009, Kwame Badu Antwi-Boasiako, Okyere B, Traditional Institutions and Public Administration in Democratic Africa, page 119:
      Unfortunately, these khaki governments end up creating elitism and cultship as they ascend the thrones of the various African countries.
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