religio-comb. form

1847 D. Magie Our True Encouragement 14 Christianity has..a tendency..to bring the power of human intellect into a docile submission to God. In accomplishing this design, its first action is religio-educational.

1946 New Eng. Q. 19 419 After 1890 the old religio-educational synthesis fell apart.

2000 E. Sanasarian Relig. Minorities Iran iii. 76 After the death of Bahonar, religio-educational issues became highly politicized.

1918 A. M. Dushkin Jewish Educ. in N.Y. City xiii. 384 American Jews are endeavoring to solve for themselves..the problem of fitting their interests and needs as a religio-ethnic community into their needs and interests as citizens of the American Commonwealth.

2008 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 8 July a2 The so-called third sex has a 4,000-year history in India, where they comprise a distinct religio-ethnic group.

1825 in tr. F. H. K. de La Motte Fouqué Magic Ring I. p. x An excellent ‘knightly tale of the olden time’, with a religio-historical moral.

1953 W. R. Trask tr. E. Auerbach Mimesis i. 17 The reader is at every moment aware of the universal religio-historical perspective which gives the individual stories their general meaning and purpose.

2001 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 120 572 The Gospel of John is best understood by placing it in its religio-historical context.

1886 W. St. C. Boscawen From under Dust of Ages ii. 30 The inscriptions of this Religio-Magical creed.

2002 M. Stutley Shamanism 2 Shamanism should not be studied only for its religio-magical viewpoints, but more importantly for the philosophical, naturalist and medical elements.

1801 P. N. Lenglet du Fresnoy Chronol. Tablets iv. 148 (heading) Religio-military institutions, orders, &c.

1894 H. Speight Nidderdale & Garden of Nidd 169 There were two orders of the religio-military brotherhood.

2007 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 5 May 5 A murderous panorama of religio-military totalitarianism.

1840 tr. in Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. 32 i. 100 Probably the night season was the time thought fittest for the religio-musical celebration of the Chrishta-lílá.

1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene iii. 45 ‘Shouting’ sects..have made the most powerful single religio-musical contribution to jazz.

1995 Austin (Texas) Amer.-Statesman (Nexis) 11 July e9 Unbridled testimony rang out from all over the venue, and you wondered if Seal..was connecting on some sort of religio-musical level.

1861 Temple Bar Oct. 420 A new school of poetry, which ultimately passed out of its purely philosophical phase into the religio-mystical.

1886 E. B. Bax Handbk. Hist. Philos. 254 The..religio-mystical opposition to Kant.

1976 Listener 22 July 92/2 George Sand..turned religio-mystical..with a spate of earnest, spiritual books.

2002 Afr. Amer. Rev. 36 250/1 Negative portrayals of the religio-mystical practices of African and New World African cultures.

1823 Churchman's Mag. Jan. 14/1 These instantly slide into his untutored mind as so many religio-philosophic apophthegms.

1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 393/1 We must take account of religio-philosophic speculations.

2002 S. Wolpert Gandhi's Passion v. 38 The traditional Hindu proclivity to find consensus, in social and political affairs as well as religio-philosophic argument.

1779 W. Alexander Hist. Women I. xii. 281 Another sect of religio-philosophical drones, called Fakiers, who contribute as much as they can to debauch the sex, under a pretence of superior sanctity.

1856 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 5 360 A cosmogonical and religio-philosophical work of a late period.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 408/2 The world-wide religio-philosophical movement known as Theosophy.

2004 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 65 570 We must reconcile this affirmation of iure divino episcopacy with the religio-philosophical framework of Book I.

1786 E. Middleton Biogr. Evangelica IV. 416 Mr. Bostwick's heavenly temper and quiet deportment did not perfectly please these religio-political professors.

1829 Times 3 Mar. 3/1 About 45l., it appears from the religio-political economy of a Mr. Allport, is the maximum expense..of a no-Popery petition.

1928 Weekly Disp. 3 June 10/5 One of the most remarkable contributions to the religio-political discussion on record.

2005 New Yorker 26 Dec. 46/1 Bill O'Reilly, the network's most prominent religio-political commentator.

1947 N. V. Peale & S. Blanton in Amer. Mag. Oct. 138/1 Since 1937 we have been operating a religio-psychiatric clinic at a large church in the heart of New York.

1964 S. Z. Klausner Psychiatry & Relig. i. 1 (heading) The religio-psychiatric movement is born through several thousand similar encounters.

2004 A. R. Heinze Jews & Amer. Soul x. 234 He informally incorporated those techniques in his extensive pastoral work and became a one-man band for religio-psychiatric counseling.

1958 L. Linn & L. W. Schwarz Psychiatry & Relig. Experience iv. 87 Under labels like ‘pastoral psychiatry’, ‘spiritual psychiatry’, and ‘religio-psychiatry’, psychotherapy is being substituted for religious counseling.

1964 S. Z. Klausner Psychiatry & Relig. i. 1 (heading) Religio-psychiatry: a social institution.

1968 Internat. Encycl. Soc. Sci. XII. 632/2 Religio-psychiatry is a twentieth-century movement whose participants are concerned with the relation between religious and scientific approaches to mental, emotional, or spiritual healing.

1856 Afr. Repository May 153/1 A religio-scientific society has been formed in England with the design of making new discoveries in Central Africa by christianizing it.

2007 Daily Tel. 30 July 23/7 The religio-scientific explanations offered by prophets of doom, who blame it [sc. a bad summer] on an excessive use of outdoor patio-heaters by smokers.

1883 Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Dis. 10 346 An aberrant tendency of the religio-sexual order finds expression in some religious sects.

1946 D. C. Peattie Road of Naturalist (U.K. ed.) iv. 49 The Poles snarled back a stream of commingled religio-sexual obscenity, to show how dirty they could talk if they pleased.

2008 Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press (Nexis) 29 Feb. e8 For a tale of religio-sexual politics tinted with adultery and incest, this film is curiously conservative and unprovocative.