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Nomothetic ambition

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 197 words | Copyright

Nomothetic ambition. The attempt (characteristic of work in the 19th cent.) to find laws, comparable to those of the natural sciences, governing social and individual behaviour, including religion.

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