quasireligious

Cooperstown inspires and encourages this kind of quasireligious tone.

Baseball’s Haul of Fame Zev Chafets 2009

Adherents/victims in such systems experience its ideology as supreme in all facets of life, and know how to behave in a given situation because they have internalized that ideology as their own identity -- a number of scholars have nailed this in observing the "quasireligious" nature of the KMT.

New Taiwan Weekly Case Michael Turton 2008

Adherents/victims in such systems experience its ideology as supreme in all facets of life, and know how to behave in a given situation because they have internalized that ideology as their own identity -- a number of scholars have nailed this in observing the "quasireligious" nature of the KMT.

Archive 2008-12-01 Michael Turton 2008

Nor is his portrayal of Jobs as an object of quasireligious veneration in any way original.

The Technogeek's Lament Terry Teachout 2011

There are, no doubt, lots of true believers in global warming -- not scientists, but people, including many journalists, who have embraced global warmism as a political and quasireligious doctrine based, they have been led to believe, on the authority of science.

Consensus or Con? James Taranto 2010

This is why they're bound to be disappointed by Superman Returns, a movie where Superman is taken out by a bald guy, some human thugs and a piece of kryptonite, all the while being held up as a quasireligious Jesus figure.

Guest Post: T on “How to Treat Superman” | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

One key component of the KMT's quasireligious structure is the Return to China theology, but another important part is the personality cult that the party fostered around Chiang Kai-shek.

Archive 2008-04-01 Michael Turton 2008

But could it be that Obama was merely paying lip service to this quasireligious belief?

Plus Ça Change 2008

UFO's may be a quasireligious con by cryptodemocrat on Sunday, Mar 2, 2008 at 1: 14: 52 PM

Full Disclosure: UFOs No Longer Unidentified 2008

Even if I was an Obama supporter and I actually did vote for him in the primary, but that has more to do with the fact that only one primary matters in Illinois, it would never ever occur to me talk about any politician in such quasireligious terms.

Not so fast « BuzzMachine 2008