page_title: Religious fanaticism
section_title: Examples of religious fanaticism
hierarchical_section_title: Religious fanaticism / Examples of religious fanaticism
caption_attribution_description: Members of the Jansenist sect having convulsions and spasms as a result of religious fanaticism. Engraving by B. Picart Iconographic Collections Keywords: Psychiatry; Epilepsy; Francois de Paris; B Picard
context_page_description: Religious fanaticism is uncritical zeal or with an obsessive enthusiasm related to one's own, or one's group's, devotion to a religion – a form of human fanaticism which could otherwise be expressed in one's other involvements and participation, including employment, role, and partisan affinities.
caption: Members of the Jansenist sect having convulsions and spasms as a result of religious fanaticism. Engraving by Bernard Picart
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