(philosophy) a movement advocating personal reason and experience and over faith and dogma
Universism is a modern rational religious philosophy that began in 2003 with princples laid out by Ford Vox. Universists choose their beliefs according to the dictates of their own life experience and reason. http://open-site.org/Society/Religion/Universism/
Universism is a philosophy of The Universist Movement. Universism, though not a definitive philosophy, is a progressive, naturalistic worldview in which all meaning and purpose is understood through personal reason and experience; thus, being a religion of reason. http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/u/universism.html
What Universism argues against is individuals believing that their truths apply to others - all of us are equals in terms of these enormous, world-shaping metaphysical questions. www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/faith/05/universist.shtml