Falun Gong is a spiritual or quasi-religious group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Focus on Falun Gong] Reference

The Mungiki began as a quasi-religious group dedicated to promoting.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Then you ask the question, "But who speaks for the quasi-religious?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffrey Robbins: Religion for the Rest of Us] Reference

In Greece, she'll attend the "quasi-religious" lighting of the Olympic torch.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Harmony'] Reference

Such qualities are quasi-religious, those of exposition rather than decision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Simon Jenkins: No Such Thing as Blairism] Reference

It falls far short of "one great apotheosis (bathed) in quasi-religious light.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Reviewing Ferdinand Lundberg's "Cracks in the Constitution"] Reference

"We do ascribe some sort of quasi-religious significance to our DNA," says Collins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Decoding The Human Body] Reference

Not to get to quasi-religious on you folks, but say a prayer for those who need it.    From Wordnik.com.  [joegood Diary Entry] Reference

He has held firm to this shibboleth with trembling lip and quasi-religious conviction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About the Iraq War Finalling Coming Out] Reference

Policy makers 'quasi-religious commitment to housing of any kind has made them the enablers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles A. Clarkson: Digging Us a Deeper Hole: Runaway Housing Subsidies] Reference

He speaks in sweeping, grand language, with a quasi-religious — albeit subdued — passion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Menachem Kaiser: Kink and the City] Reference

It confirmed the quasi-religious stirrings we felt when we encountered the books the first time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Return to Narnia] Reference

Theirs were quasi-religious copies of what their grandparents say down in Atlanta at Thanksgiving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trey Ellis: The Day After That Day with All the Hearts] Reference

Their quasi-religious worship of the Free Market, for example, undermines most traditional values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert S. McElvaine: Echoes of a Distant Crash] Reference

It is because of a quasi-religious sense that we are tampering with the globe in ways we shouldn't be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Kind of Cataclysm: Incremental Climate Change] Reference

And Frieden, who shares his boss's quasi-religious belief in hard evidence, rigorously monitors outcomes.    From Wordnik.com.  [300 Million Patients] Reference

This time it centers on whether you have right in or near quasi-religious groups like Alcoholic Anonymous.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2002] Reference

Schonteich said Afrikaner nationalism of the far-right quasi-religious kind was difficult to define, but that these.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Belief in a Palestinian state has become a theological question, a quasi-religious belief disconnected from reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Possessed of a quasi-religious mission to remake the Middle East, they are determined to war with Iran, no matter the cost.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adam Elkus: Maybe Iran Supports Terrorists--And Your Point Is?] Reference

Only those who have made Freud into an object of a quasi-religious cult could feel threatened by showing where he was wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freud, Like Columbus, Opened a Whole New World] Reference

At some times it seemed like he was campaigning not really as a political figure, but as some kind of quasi-religious figure.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 30, 2008] Reference

In other words, what makes the quasi-religious sensibility what it is is precisely what precludes it from being wildly popular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeffrey Robbins: Religion for the Rest of Us] Reference

I admit, I sympathize with those skeptics on this site who fear that we are engendering a quasi-religious conformity of our own.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Berreby: Richard Dawkins' Jewish Question] Reference

And that unhooks Capitalism from its quasi-religious status, which means we can simply use it, instead of having to "believe in it".    From Wordnik.com.  [Jasmine Boussem: Involuntary Simplicity?] Reference

Moreover, the Olympics, of all sporting events, sets itself up with its pretensions of spirituality, of being a quasi-religious "movement.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Coming Of Age In America] Reference

Was the revolt a worthy anti-imperialist movement (as official textbooks have taught), Yuan asks, or were the quasi-religious Boxers “simply destructive”?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freezing Point] Reference

Essentially, they're mafias that are tied together loosely, but are overseen by this quasi-religious figure that gives it a moral authority it doesn't deserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2007] Reference

The Greatest Hits of Chinese Cult UprisingsLi Hongzhi's Falun Gong is only the latest quasi-religious movement to scare the Chinese leadership over the centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Hits Of Chinese Cult Uprisings] Reference

I wish the global warming fanatics would not add to the unhappiness of the Cockermouth people by arguing that the flood there proves their quasi-religious beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A seasonal lament] Reference

  The Greatest Hits of Chinese Cult UprisingsLi Hongzhi's Falun Gong is only the latest quasi-religious movement to scare the Chinese leadership over the centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apocalypse When] Reference

Essentially, they're mafias that are tied together loosely but are overseen by this -- this quasi-religious figure that gives it a moral authority it doesn't deserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 9, 2007] Reference

Essentially, they're mafias that are tied together loosely, but are overseen by this -- this quasi-religious figure that gives it a moral authority it doesn't deserve.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2007] Reference