Buchmanism
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Origin of Buchmanism
1925–30; Frank N. D. Buchman (1879–1961), U.S. religious leader; see -ism
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It also demonstrates that Buchmanism is a bore, at least in the movies, and that Joan Crawford, Fredric March, Rose Hobart, Nigel Bruce and Bruce Cabot are not.
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Nevertheless, the array of sponsors showed that what was once "Buchmanism" and is now The Groups has at last found wide favor in high places.
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He has abandoned his onetime claim that Buchmanism simply makes Baptists better Baptists, Catholics better Catholics, etc.
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Buchmanism is about 20 years old, a mere infant in the range of religious history.
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Frank N. D. Buchman, instigator of "Buchmanism" among the young people of U. S. colleges, last week closed a "house party" of his adepts at Lake Minnewaska.
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