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noun Any of various religious theories postulating that a deity, mind, or spirit is immanent in the world and in the individual.

Granted the basal axiom of this type of immanentism, it follows with irresistible cogency that our separate existence, consciousness, volitions and so forth are merely illusions. — Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
The second example of it can be found in the question of pantheism--or rather of a certain modern attitude which is often called immanentism, and which often is Buddhism. — Orthodoxy
The second example of it can be found in the question of pantheism -- or rather of a certain modern attitude which is often called immanentism, and which often is Buddhism. — Orthodoxy
Today the question should be determined, in my judgment, in relation to the threat of what we can call "cultic immanentism": the danger, namely, of a congregation's covert self-reference in a horizontal, humanistic world. — Musings of a Pertinacious Papist