Meanings of fetish worship in English

She compared the self-denial of the monk with the fetish worship of the savage.

We, however, were in no degree infected with this fetish worship of the Constituent Assembly.

We should also, on this theory, teach our children, as a natural introduction to religion, to practice fetish worship.

African religion has usually been defined as fetish worship-the belief that specific inanimate objects are inhabited by spirits endowed with magical powers.

The discovery of dysaemia, or impaired blood supply, as the governing cause of disease, has destroyed another idol of modern fetish worship in medicine.

I realize that this was plain, unadulterated, heathenish fetish worship, but it shows what a man reverts to in the barbaric stress of war.