Ists And Isms

What are these? Where would they be found? The answer to these questions is simple:  they are people, people found everywhere.  By the former we refer to conformists and extremists, by the latter sectarianism and pharisaism.  Of course you could add an almost infinite number of terms to this list all of which end in -ist or -ism. When you see that suffix on words it often means an exaggeration.  It is most likely for this reason that to some the word Calvinism is a distasteful choice of word...