The phrase "materialistic worldview" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when discussing perspectives or beliefs that prioritize material possessions and physical comfort over spiritual or intellectual values.
Example: "His materialistic worldview often leads him to prioritize wealth over relationships."
Alternatives: "materialistic perspective" or "materialistic outlook"
For some conservatives, accepting Darwin undercuts religious faith and produces an amoral, materialistic worldview that easily embraces abortion, embryonic stem cell research and other practices they abhor.
In a potential baby-bath-water scenario, the risk is that by adapting practices such as mindfulness and contemplation for a materialistic world, their essence could become perverted to suit the materialistic worldview.
Creationists and ID proponents claim that allegiance to a materialistic worldview drives evolutionary theory more than any established biological evidence.
Its bold, materialistic worldview couldn't be more different from the austere and collectivist one envisioned by Mao Zedong more than 60 years ago.
If inner=outer, a tremendous shift in the Western materialistic worldview would follow.
Asian religions and philosophies offer an alternative anchored in a less materialistic worldview, a better and deeper acknowledgment of interactions between God, nature, and human beings, and a stronger role for the collective versus the individual.
Tolkien's anti-materialistic worldview, in which he extolled the wonders of growing things and of the ordinary – "stone, and wood, and iron; tree and grass; house and fire; bread and wine", as he put it in his 1947 essay On Fairy-Stories – also dovetailed with the countercultural values.
Moreover, Christian pacifists will argue that pacifism is part of a religious worldview that looks beyond a materialistic defense of the finite goods of this world.
But beliefs about human worth go to the core of our worldviews and require that we admit discussion of all approaches, whether materialistic, philosophical or theological.
