Definition of Priestcraft. Meaning of Priestcraft. Synonyms of Priestcraft

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Definition of Priestcraft

Priestcraft
Priestcraft Priest"craft`, n. Priestly policy; the policy of a priesthood; esp., in an ill sense, fraud or imposition in religious concerns; management by priests to gain wealth and power by working upon the religious motives or credulity of others. It is better that men should be governed by priestcraft than by violence. --Macaulay.

Meaning of Priestcraft from wikipedia

- A priest is a religious leader authorized to perform the sacred rituals of a religion, especially as a mediatory agent between humans and one or more deities...
- was a poet-saint religious reformer who spoke against formalism and priestcraft and was active in Rajasthan. "Dadu" means brother, and "Dayal" means...
- Press Natural Religion and the History of Priestcraft 1660-1722 Chapter 5 from, The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies...
- religion. Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason. "As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion...
- sceptical attitude of the citation of medicine from the shackles of priestcraft and of caste; secondly, the conception of medicine as an art based on...
- brotherhood of men sank into discredit because of its fatal entanglement with priestcraft and the Papacy on the one hand and with the authority of princes on the...
- (2007). The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, Chapter:'Jefferson's Religion: Priestcraft, Enlightenment and the Republican Revolution. University of Virginia...
- .. fictitious, and chimerical, and as a gross Piece of Forgery and Priestcraft, and thereby to weaken, enervate "Rabbenu Tam, Sefer ha-Yashar (The Book...
- labours!" Orwell portrays established religion as "the black raven of priestcraft—promising pie in the sky when you die, and faithfully serving whoever...
- poet-sant from Gujarat, a religious reformer who spoke against formalism and priestcraft. A group of his followers near Jaipur, Rajasthan, forming a Vaishnavite...