different between precepts vs exoterism

English

Noun

precepts

1. plural of precept

Anagrams

• percepts

English

Noun

exoterism (plural exoterisms)

1. The outward forms that religion takes; the institutional aspects of faith and religion, such as rituals, moral precepts, and institutions.
   • 1875. Gordon Campbell, Wilson Edward William Morrison, E B Iwan-Müller, Frederick Sanders Pulling, Francis Griffin Stokes, The Shotover Papers, Or, Echoes from Oxford, University of Oxford, page 73,

     It is not however easy -- perhaps it is impossible -- to reveal a discovery so wonderful by popular exoterism on the point: posterity will amplify and expound in dry but acumonious logic what I have here only to put forth in its great Severity and Profundity.

   • 1919. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled: A Master Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science, The Aryan Theosophical Press, page 535,

     The thought of the present-day commentator and critic as to the ancient learning, is limited to and runs round the exoterism of the temples...

   • 2003. Reiner Schürmann, Reginald Lilly, Broken Hegemonies, Indiana University Press, page 248,

     In their exoterism, they showed civic sense is most demanding.

See also

• esoterism

References

• exoterism, in New Encyclopedia of Islam.

Anagrams

• oximeters, oximetres