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Censure those people around India with second religious belief (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

pantheism

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'religious belief' is the definition.
(pantheism is a kind of religious belief)

'censure those people around india with second' is the wordplay.
'censure' becomes 'pan' (both can mean to criticise).
'those people' becomes 'them' ('they' refers to a group of people).
'around' indicates putting letters inside.
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'with second' becomes 's' (common abbreviation. I am not sure about the 'with' bit.).
'i'+'s'='is'
'them' enclosing 'is' is 'theism'.
'pan'+'theism'='PANTHEISM'

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(Other definitions for pantheism that I've seen before include "Belief that God is in everything - even in a shipment" , "Seeing god in nature" , "The belief that God is the universe and its phenomena" , "Readiness to believe in all or many gods" , "Widespread belief" .)

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