崇拜
迷信
devotion to the doctrine or a cult or to the practices of a cult
religious zeal; the willingness to serve God
同义词： idolatry / devotion / veneration
礼拜，膜拜，祭礼
If the pure intellectuals gain the upper hand, then cultism may rule China.
如果让纯知识分子占了上风，那么个人迷信之风就可能统治中国。
Remember that cultism (aka power struggle) is a fatal move against consensus forming top party policy.
There is a prohibition on cultism to prevent any one person from acquiring ruinous power.
Linux, the "open-source" pc operating system, has a different sort of cultism, one more disposed to compatibility.