associatism

English

Etymology

From associate +‎ -ism.

Noun

associatism (uncountable)

1. A self-regulatory movement in the 1920s in which community members assumed a duty of mutual obligation to support each other.
2. (religion) The worship of, or belief in, various entities associated with the divine.
   • 2012, Khaled Hroub, Political Islam: Context Versus Ideology, →ISBN:

     Associatism can take the form of venerating trees or the tombs of saints, seeking holy men or soothsayers as intermediaries with God, or putting one's faith in astrology.