Yes, I’ve seen the term before. The reason I’m asking you to define it if you are going to use it is because like the term “religion” it has different meanings in different contexts when different people are using it (although as far as I can tell most people use it to mean “recent religion that I don’t like” in a way similar to how some people use the term “cult”.) So without expanding out precisely what you mean it isn’t a helpful term.
As far as I can tell a pseudoreligion is a religion that hasn’t coalesced as of yet into a distinct set of shared beliefs. That is how I would use the term.
However, this contradicts many of the ways that it is used generally, which seem to match your view of how people use the term. I am therefore not sure that it is helpful term given the common usage and connotations to that usage. Cult is similarly a difficult word, it is useful in a technical sense to define the worship of something but commonly has a very different meaning.
Yes, I’ve seen the term before. The reason I’m asking you to define it if you are going to use it is because like the term “religion” it has different meanings in different contexts when different people are using it (although as far as I can tell most people use it to mean “recent religion that I don’t like” in a way similar to how some people use the term “cult”.) So without expanding out precisely what you mean it isn’t a helpful term.
As far as I can tell a pseudoreligion is a religion that hasn’t coalesced as of yet into a distinct set of shared beliefs. That is how I would use the term.
However, this contradicts many of the ways that it is used generally, which seem to match your view of how people use the term. I am therefore not sure that it is helpful term given the common usage and connotations to that usage. Cult is similarly a difficult word, it is useful in a technical sense to define the worship of something but commonly has a very different meaning.