religionize
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religionize (third-person singular simple present religionizes, present participle religionizing, simple past and past participle religionized)
- (transitive) To bring under the influence of religion.
- Antonym: dereligionize
- (intransitive) To profess religion.
- (transitive, sociology) To interpret or conceptualize as religion.
- 2015, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion, →ISBN, page 166, note 103:
- Dressler refers to a “trend to religionize Alevism” in the context of a discussion of the changing role of the dede, or Alevi spiritual leader […]