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Ietsism ((オランダ語:ietsisme) () – "somethingism") is an unspecified belief in an undetermined transcendent force. It is a Dutch term for a range of beliefs held by people who, on the one hand, inwardly suspect – or indeed believe – that "there must be something undefined beyond the material and that which can be seen” than we know about, but on the other hand do not necessarily accept or subscribe to the established belief system, dogma or view of the nature of God offered by any particular religion. Some of the English language equivalent terms are agnostic theism and spiritual but not religious. Ietsists might call themselves Christian or followers of an other religion based on cultural identification with that religion, without believing in the dogmas of that particular religion. In terms of statistics this might influence outcomes when people are asked about their religion or beliefs without more in-depth interviewing. In some Eastern European censuses (Albanian, for example), those having ietsistic beliefs are counted as believers without religion. == Etymology == The name derives from the Dutch equivalent of the question: "Do you believe in the conventional 'Christian' God?", a typical 'ietsist' answer being "No, but there must be something", "something" being "iets" in Dutch. The atheist political columnist and molecular biologist Ronald Plasterk (who later served as the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science and Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations) has published a piece in 1997 in the magazine ''Intermediar'' in which he used the word. The term became widely known in the Netherlands after Plasterk used it in a feature for the television programme ''Buitenhof''.〔 ''wayback.archive.org'' (permalink) - (Ronald Plasterk: ietsisme ), the site “weblog.nl” is archived and transferred to wordpress.com〕 In October 2005, the word “ietsisme” was included in the 14th edition of the Dutch Language Dictionary 'Dikke Van Dale'. The word has recently (2012) begun to circulate among English speakers as a loanword. More recently, the word ''ietsers'' ("somethingers") has emerged in the Netherlands to describe people of this viewpoint, but this has not yet been borrowed into English. The term ''ietsism'' is becoming more widely used in Europe opposed to ''Spiritual but not religious'' in North America.〔http://www.kuleuven.be/thomas/page/ietsisme/〕〔http://systempsychology.ru/journal/2012-6/115-tkachenko-av-itsizm-kak-osnovnaya-forma-religioznyh-predstavleniy-sovremennoy-molodezhi.html〕 The word occurs in Dutch (Ietsisme), German (Ietsismus), Russian (Итсизм), Ukrainian (Ітсизм) and Bellarussian (Іцызм). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ietsism」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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