religious mania

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• Religious Painting —     Religious Painting     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Religious Painting     Painting has always been associated with the life of the Church. From the time of the Catacombs it has been used in ecclesiastical ornamentation, and for centuries after… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• mania — noun 1 extreme enthusiasm for sth ADJECTIVE ▪ dotcom, financial, merger, etc. ▪ current VERB + MANIA ▪ have …   Collocations dictionary

• mania — ma|ni|a [ˈmeıniə] n [U and C] [Date: 1300 1400; : Late Latin; Origin: Greek, from mainesthai to be mentally ill ] 1.) a strong desire for something or interest in something, especially one that affects a lot of people at the same time = ↑craze… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• mania — noun (C, U) 1 a very strong desire for something or interest in something, especially one that affects a lot of people at the same time (+ for): A mania for a game called Nibs ran through the school. | religious/football/disco etc mania: The… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• religious — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become ADVERB ▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc. ▪ deeply …   Collocations dictionary

• Dancing mania — on a pilgrimage to the church at Sint Jans Molenbeek. An engraving by Hendrick Hondius (1642) after a drawing by Pieter Brueghel the Elder (1564). Dancing mania (also known as dancing plague, choreomania, St John s Dance and, historically, St.… …   Wikipedia

• TM and Cult Mania — Autor Michael Persinger, Normand Carrey, Lynn Suess. Género Psicología Subgénero Meditación trascendental …   Wikipedia Español

• dancing mania and hallucinations —    Dancing mania is also known as dancing plague, epidemic ofdancing, epidemic chorea, and choreomania. According to historical sources, the latter term was introduced by Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus (1493… …   Dictionary of Hallucinations

• Social mania — Social manias are mass movements which periodically sweep through society, sometimes on a world wide basis. They are characterized by an outpouring of enthusiasm, mass involvement and millennialist goals. Social manias are contagious social… …   Wikipedia

• fanatica mania — A form of insanity produced by a morbid state of religious feeling. Ekin v McCracken (Pa) 11 Phila 534, 540 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• sebastomania — Religious mania …   Ballentine's law dictionary