superstitiously

Examples of superstitious

superstitious
As such, education took on a superstitious or magical quality.
Over time, these individual superstitious beliefs become shared in local communities and thus become folk religions.
The violence throughout the region from 1902 to 1937 was thus seen as a continuous stream of superstitious brutality.
This is because the most elaborate and expensive rituals, such as fangyankou, can easily run afoul of state religious policy because of possible "superstitious" elements.
That view would have struck them as ineradicably superstitious.
It provides an alternative, wholly naturalistic account of the origin of some of the characteristically superstitious beliefs that have often been attributed to revelation.
Perhaps surprisingly, there are no clear cases of heresy in these records, but some colourful practitioners of ' superstitious arts ' do appear.
Although (they know) they are religious beliefs, (they think) they are still a bit superstitious.
It also provides the resources for explaining why any genuinely theistic revelation would quickly be corrupted into a popular, superstitious form.
It may be postulated that this form of behavior is merely a superstitious act (according to operant definitions) that ultimately serves little function in performance.
Along the continuum, superstitious perceptions provide a method to tackle representational issues.
There is a lot of superstition about mental illness and people tend to treat the mentally ill on religious and superstitious lines.
They were for dramaturgical purposes not a religious group at all, only a superstitious foil to the forces of modernisation.
Yes, you have to be superstitious, believe blindly in certain things.
The "second branch" of the question raises, in the dismissed prophecy of the superstitious neighborhood women, issues central to the novel's autobiographical project.
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