voluntaryism

Reliance on voluntary contributions rather than government funds, as for churches or schools; voluntarism.

Voluntary principle or action; the system or principle of supporting anything by voluntary contribution or assistance; especially, the principle of unrestricted personal liberty in matters of religion—this involving on the one hand the obligation of church-members to support and maintain religious ordinances, and on the other the church’s entire freedom from state patronage, support, and control.

The principle of supporting a religious system and its institutions by voluntary association and effort, rather than by the aid or patronage of the state.

voluntarism