pietism

From piety +‎ -ism.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpʌɪətɪz(ə)m/

pietism (countable and uncountable, plural pietisms)

1. (Christianity, often capitalized) A movement in the Lutheran church in the late 17th and 18th centuries, calling for practical and devout Christianity.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 739:

     From its earliest days, Pietism was intimately bound up with education.

• church pietism
• radical pietism

• pietist

• Radical Pietism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French piétisme.

pietism n (uncountable)

1. pietism