transformationalism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A fusion of evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, and ecumenism that became prominent in the early 21st century; transformational Christianity.
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noun
A sociological and educational theory that focuses on the process of learned concepts and skills to reframe and transform unthinking culturally-generated assumptions and cognitive categories.
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noun
The belief in the transformative power of Confucian culture as a superior system that can be universally applied to all people.
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noun
A political theory that emphasizes assimilation as a process of global cultural convergence.
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Example Sentences
- "For quite different reasons neither Chomsky nor Lakoff has offered good evidence for considering the Port-Royal Grammar to be an early essay in transformationalism, but the evidence they do offer raises many interesting questions about the interpretation of the Grammar (and the Logic) specifically, about the history of thought about language, and, more surprisingly, about the fundamental concepts of twentieth-century transformational grammar."
- "Thus one might speak here of syntactic transformationalism on the one hand and semantic transformationalism on the other."
- "It is certainly true that unconstrained transformationalism is incompatible with the basic fact that words constitute special morphological units that are distinct from phrases and sentences."
- "Their position denies the general revelation of God given in the other religions, while inclusive transformationalism acknowledges the relative usefulness and values that other religions have, even though they do not bring salvation."
- "Unlike ecumenism, transformationalism is not an expression of denominational uniformity, but an expression of interdenominational alliances."
- "Transformationalism may describe the reality of religion in America, but normatively speaking it fails to reveal anything about the quality or implications of those changes."
Etymology
From transformational + -ism.