Fanaticism
246. Fanaticism (See also Extremism.)
- Adamites various sects preaching a return to life before the fall. [Christian Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 8]
- assassins Moslem murder teams used hashish as stimulus (11th and 12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52]
- Fakirs mendicant Indian sects bent on self-punishment for salvation. [Asian Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 310]
- flagellants various Christian sects practising self-punishment. [Christian Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 331–332]
- Harmony Society Harmonists, also Rappites; subscribed to austere doctrines, such as celibacy, and therefore no longer exist (since 1960). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 910]
- Hitler, Adolf (1889–1945) German dictator tried to conquer the world. [Ger. Hist.: Hitler ]
- Shakers (or Alethians) received their name from the trembling produced by excesses of religious emotion; because of doctrine of celibacy, Shakers are all but extinct. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1938]
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