countercultist
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]countercultist (plural countercultists)
- Alternative form of counter-cultist.
- 2008, "New Religious Movements, Christian", in William A. Dyrness & Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church, page 605.
- In the 1980s a cult controversy discussion arose between religion scholars, anticultists and countercultists. During this time some anticultists and countercultists came to regard religion scholars as adopting a pro-cult attitude in their shift away from using the church-cult-sect distinction.
- 2008, "New Religious Movements, Christian", in William A. Dyrness & Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Global Dictionary of Theology: A Resource for the Worldwide Church, page 605.
Adjective
[edit]countercultist (comparative more countercultist, superlative most countercultist)
- Alternative form of counter-cultist.
- 2016, Lawrence Kohlberg, "Revisions in the Theory and Practice of Moral Development", in Richard M. Lerner & Jasna Jovanovic, Cognitive and Moral Development, Academic Achievement in Adolescence.
- It is my hope that these chapters will illustrate, as well as encourage, the movement of moral development research beyond either a cultist focus on moral judgment stages or a countercultist critique of them to an examination of the enduring problems of moral development and moral education.
- 2016, Lawrence Kohlberg, "Revisions in the Theory and Practice of Moral Development", in Richard M. Lerner & Jasna Jovanovic, Cognitive and Moral Development, Academic Achievement in Adolescence.