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MANUAL OF STYLE:CAPITALIZATION
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etc., except in connection with the name of the place in which they are located.
9. The names of political parties, religious denominations or sects, and philosophical, literary, and artistic schools, and their adherents:

Republican, Conservative, National Liberal, Social Democracy (where, as in continental Europe, it is organized as a distinct parliamentary faction); Christian, Protestantism, Evangelical Lutheran, Catholic (Papist, Ultramontane), Reformed, Greek Orthodox, Methodism, Anabaptist, Seventh-Day Adventists, the Establishment, High Church, High Churchman, Separatist, Nonconformist, Dissenter, Christian Science, Theosophist, Jew, Pharisee (but: scribe); Epicurean, Stoic, Gnosticism (but: neo-Platonism, pseudo-Christianity— see 203, 208), Literalist; the Romantic movement; the Symbolic school of painters.

But do not capitalize any of the above or similar words, or their derivatives, when used in their original or acquired general sense of pervading spirit, point of view, trend of thought, attitude of mind, or mode of action:

republican form of government, a true democrat and a conservative statesman, socialism as an economic panacea, the communistic theory, single-taxer, anarchism; catholicity of mind, puritanical ideas, evangelical spirit, pharisaic superciliousness; deist, pantheism, rationalist; epicurean tastes, stoic endurance, dualism and monism in present-day philosophy, an altruistic world- view; the classics, a realistic novel.

10. The names of monastic orders and their members:

Black Friars, Dominican, Jesuit.