Meanings
- uncountablelifestyleThe state or condition of a cult.
Unfortunately, these khaki governments end up creating elitism and cultship as they ascend the thrones of the various African countries.
2009, Kwame Badu Antwi-Boasiako, Okyere B, Traditional Institutions and Public Administration in Democratic Africa, page 1192 more examples
Despite a long history of administrative autonomy within the Empire and strong cultural ties with the Jukun – the Arago and the Jukun had similar notions of divine chieftaincy and cultship – Keana became a tributary of Bauchi and Sokoto in the mid-nineteenth century and Doma a vassal of Zaria […].
1976, Alvin Magid, Men in the Middle, page 26Citizenship rather than subjectship or kinship or cultship has defined the prerogatives and encumbrances of that membership, and the nation-state rather than the neighborhood or the city or the region established its scope.
1995, Public Culture
Origin
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