cultshipとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

cultship (uncountable)

1. (religion) The state or condition of a cult.
   • 1976, Alvin Magid, Men in the Middle, page 26:

     Despite a long history of administrative autonomy within the Empire and strong cultural ties with the Jukun – the Arago and the Jukun had similar notions of divine chieftaincy and cultship – Keana became a tributary of Bauchi and Sokoto in the mid-nineteenth century and Doma a vassal of Zaria […] .

   • 1995, Public Culture:

     Citizenship rather than subjectship or kinship or cultship has defined the prerogatives and encumbrances of that membership, and the nation-state rather than the neighborhood or the city or the region established its scope.

   • 2009, Kwame Badu Antwi-Boasiako, Okyere B, Traditional Institutions and Public Administration in Democratic Africa, page 119:

     Unfortunately, these khaki governments end up creating elitism and cultship as they ascend the thrones of the various African countries.