But none of these new religious enthusiasms threatened the old order.

The first half of the seventeenth century was full of religious enthusiasms, which carried high expectations.

His religious convictions were ready to hand, but he spent several uncomfortable days hunting up his religious enthusiasms.

Knox, long since, had laid siege to Alexander's susceptible and ardent mind with the lively batteries of his religious enthusiasms.

It's a bit like some of the relics of 19th century religious enthusiasms -Christian Science, or the Christ Apostolic Church.