Мракобесие is usually rendered as obscurantism, which isn't always a satisfying translation. From Wordnik.com. [The St. Petersburg Times] Reference
Instead, our problem is becoming obscurantism, which is a deliberate hiding of the facts by vested interests who know they are injuring us. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: August 15, 2004 - August 21, 2004 Archives] Reference
Economists strangely seem even more prone to this kind of obscurantism than the rest of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Insurance versus Charity, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Cultural relativism undermines the moral certitude of our principal enemy, Catholicism (aka "obscurantism"). From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Sorcery, protection from sorcery, sorcery accusations, and spiritual healing were all relegated to the category of "obscurantism" and forbidden. From Wordnik.com. [Mozambique: The Politics of Sorcery on the Mueda Plateau] Reference
"obscurantism" or "material opacity" which resists the pressure of the creative spirit. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
One thing I'd like to point out regarding obscurantism. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
If this be demagogy and obscurantism, make the most of it. From Wordnik.com. [High Noon] Reference
What does obscurantism have to do with voting issues you ask?. From Wordnik.com. ['Daily Voting News' For August 08, 2008] Reference
All extremism, fanaticism and obscurantism come from a lack of security. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Lurie: The Three Characteristics of Extremism] Reference
Their backward-looking obscurantism aside, both are revolutionary movements. From Wordnik.com. [Sohrab Ahmari: Iran and the Radical Sunnis] Reference
They remain apostles of the Enlightenment, committed to reason over obscurantism. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
"They remain apostles of the Enlightenment, committed to reason over obscurantism.". From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Religious orthodoxy, obscurantism and intolerance entered the body of Islamic societies. From Wordnik.com. [Emerging Muslim Freethinkers and the Battle of Civilizations] Reference
Opponents understand that USTL's obscurantism, dogmatism and bullying embarrass the cause. From Wordnik.com. [Save Us From The Purists] Reference
How many times have the same objections in Ireland been put down to clerical obscurantism?. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference
Much of this new philosophy is a kind of higher obscurantism; the man in the street applauds Bergson and. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
What can we do, today, to help you, to help Sakineh, to help Iranian women fighting against obscurantism?. From Wordnik.com. [Bernard-Henri Lévy: Interview: Sakineh's Attorney Speaks From Exile] Reference
It was Marcel Duchamp who unwittingly launched art criticism on its current path of willful obscurantism. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Art of Writing About Art] Reference
My studies of literature futher strengthened my hatred of all forms of oppression, persecution and obscurantism. From Wordnik.com. [Chris Hani] Reference
My studies of literature further strengthened my hatred of all forms of oppression, persecution and obscurantism. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
It is the impetus of obscurantism, of the impulse to close off instead of open up, to exclude instead of embrace. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Gardels: My Talk With Bernard-Henri Levy: The Empty Heaven of Democracy] Reference
But it is an excellent example of what effect religious obscurantism may exert in backward sections of our country. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Many of them were raised as atheists or agnostics, and they tend to identify any religious belief with obscurantism. From Wordnik.com. [Russia at the crossroads] Reference
They succeed, in spite of their obscurantism, because they do confess and meet man's central need, his need to be saved. From Wordnik.com. [Preaching and Paganism] Reference
It was what philosophers call 'ideological obscurantism', which means obscuring the truth in order to serve the interests of a clique. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the Opening of the Africa Conference on Elections, Democracy And Governance 7 April 2003] Reference
Labels: 2008 federal election, black holes, Cons, Conservative party, Le Devoir, obscurantism, Opus Dei posted by Marie Ève at 12:33 PM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
In a speech that lashed and flayed the forces of reaction and obscurantism, he demanded that the party stand by the right of the people to rule. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
Bhutto's placing of petty politics above principle is now generally regarded as a turning point in his country's long slide toward obscurantism and lawlessness. From Wordnik.com. [Intolerance in Indonesia] Reference
Nor do I automatically get a defeater by retracing her steps and reading these authors myself: where she finds profound insight, I may find posturing obscurantism. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
We have also a duty of vigilance, also a duty to fight ruthlessly all these upsurges and seedbeds of hatred that feed on ignorance on obscurantism and on intolerance. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2004] Reference
The word demands to be repeated almost obsessively to the point where one could be transported hundreds of years in the past, to an era of obscurantism and amorality. From Wordnik.com. [The 13 Culprits]
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