socioreligious
- adjective
- /ˌsoʊsiəˈrɪlədʒəs/
- Formal
- The socioreligious festival brought together people from various backgrounds to celebrate their shared beliefs.
- socioreligious association
Examples
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Casteism practiced in this way is closely related to political power with socioreligious associations, which are important organizations for mobilizing popular support through their networks of temples, priests, and religious festivals in villages and towns throughout the country.
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The largest socioreligious association among Hindus, the Sanatan Dharm Temple Federation, formed in 1964, and it controlled all the orthodox Hindu temples.
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Although the Vaish movement appeared as a socioreligious association, it acted as a caste association, and its purpose was partly political.
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The role of Station HCJB and the Radio Circle during more than four decades, however, must be heavily weighed in the overall socioreligious calculus.
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The socioreligious associations also wanted to prevent disunity among the Hindus, and as a result, these organizations were called socioreligious associations instead of caste groups.
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In that sense, caste populations and their respective socioreligious associations have become collective entities with a renewed but qualitatively different purpose, meaning, and importance.
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A particularly interesting phenomenon is the emergence and importance of caste (or socioreligious) associations as interest groups lobbying for political purposes.
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It was this awareness of being disadvantaged that made members of the Vaish and Rajput form their own socioreligious associations.
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Caste categories and their organized expressions through associations function as important political lobbies, along with the ethnic minorities and their respective socioreligious associations.
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The first community leaders among the Hindus (in socioreligious associations and political parties) were mostly of high caste, and they also came to occupy important positions in the government bureaucracy.
Academic text (1994)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Socioreligious comes from socio-, which means 'society' or 'people', like in social, and from religious, which comes from 'religion' and means 'faith' or 'beliefs'. So socioreligious describes something that involves both community life and religion.