known in Russian catechisms as formalism

Of course, to be fully formed—to grow up—means to be tainted by this mode of communicating, as the narrator is in a catechism with her mother about their departure for another town

China, whose outsized growth the global recovery vitally depends on, has flouted almost every item in Friedman’s catechism

We're also the only country that chose to close the schools one day per week [...] for catechism

The dialogue-of-one becomes a kind of mocking catechism

His ‘test’ swept aside all the necessary ambivalence in play, reducing one’s allegiance to a sporting team to a catechism of national faith

recounting neoliberal catechisms like Medieval Catholic priests reciting the Mass in Latin

Up to this point the theory of utility was able to base itself on definite social facts; its further account of the manner of exploitation amounts to a mere recital of catechism phrases.

A family man was doubly reckless to have broken rules that everyone in the shadow world knew like a catechism

the catechism of reasons that startups fail

They have come up against a conundrum of left catechism: how does a movement go about being socialist in an unripe country with a weak and marginal capitalism, a vast and ‘backward’ peasantry, and a monarchy that has not had the decency to undergo its bourgeois revolution?

Sin is not just what the catechism says it is. Sin is not simply that which we commit. Sin is also what we desire but are too weak to do.

there is room for nothing in Stalinist culture except for edifying sermons, colorless life, and the catechism of propaganda

wrote long incoherent pages where I tried to destroy her, and all the catechism which had been laid into my skull by good Sister Rose came back to scathe the people I had known

some bit of absurdity or contradiction in the catechism

After an unsuccessful catechism class the priest enters in his diary, “But why the hostility of these little ones. What have I done to them?”

Thiel recognizes in Girard’s claim precisely the kind of catechism of faith that Silicon Valley has built so much of its success on

intoning a prefight catechism