resurrectionism

English

Etymology

From resurrection +‎ -ism.

Noun

resurrectionism (uncountable)

1. Belief in, or the event of, a person being resurrected from the dead.
2. (historical) Graverobbing.
   • 2011, Martin Conaghan, Burke & Hare:

     Ironically, resurrectionism was not a crime in the 1800s, and both men would never have fallen foul of the law if graverobbing was their only enterprise; certainly, Burke would never have received the death penalty.