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- noun opposition to political influence of
clerics
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Examples
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The EU request has led to political charges of "anticlericalism" from the Right, and to charges from the Left that the Italian government has given the Church a "privileged position".
Archive 2007-08-01 Howard M. Friedman 2007
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On the other hand, in both cases the gap between the views of religious and secular Americans has significantly narrowed.58 It is not that religious Americans have suddenly made their peace with homosexuality or anticlericalism—far from it.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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The Fugitive, starring Henry Fonda, Dolores del Río, and Pedro Armendáriz, was conceived before World War II as a polemic against anticlericalism, based on events in the Mexican state of Tabasco.
The New York Public Library: A Villain Who Looks Like a Fascist and Talks Like a Communist: The Strange Politics of John Ford's The Fugitive The New York Public Library 2011
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The Fugitive, starring Henry Fonda, Dolores del Río, and Pedro Armendáriz, was conceived before World War II as a polemic against anticlericalism, based on events in the Mexican state of Tabasco.
The New York Public Library: A Villain Who Looks Like a Fascist and Talks Like a Communist: The Strange Politics of John Ford's The Fugitive The New York Public Library 2011
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That aside, Mexico, unlike Haiti, has a strong strain of hardcore atheism and anticlericalism running through its history.
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Where anticlericalism had long been a leading principle of the Mexican Revolution, Salinas completely reversed course.
High hopes, baffling uncertainty: Mexico nears the millennium 2008
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Some of it goes back to the anticlericalism of the French Revolution, which, as Bea Himmelfarb has written, was a fundamentally more antireligious movement than anything happening in Britain or America.
LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010
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Though the latter quality may not seem like much these days, there was a strong tradition of anticlericalism in Mexico during the first half of the 20th Century and to announce oneself as a religious believer was to skate on very thin political ice.
Mexico's marxist guru: Vicente Lombardo Toledano (1894–1968) 2008
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Some of it goes back to the anticlericalism of the French Revolution, which, as Bea Himmelfarb has written, was a fundamentally more antireligious movement than anything happening in Britain or America.
LOSING OUR RELIGION S. E. CUPP 2010
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Where anticlericalism had long been a leading principle of the Mexican Revolution, Salinas completely reversed course.
High hopes, baffling uncertainty: Mexico nears the millennium 2008
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