Follow mother? Tim's ridiculous following of code of beliefs? (9)
I believe the answer is:
dogmatism
'of code of beliefs?' is the definition.
The definition suggests a singular noun which matches the answer.
'follow mother? tim's ridiculous' is the wordplay.
'follow' becomes 'dog' (I've seen this before).
'mother?' becomes 'ma' (Ma is another word for mother or mum).
'ridiculous' is an anagram indicator.
'tims' with letters rearranged gives 'tism'.
'dog'+'ma'+'tism'='DOGMATISM'
'following' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dogmatism that I've seen before include "Assertion of opinions as truths" , "Positive assertion of opinion" .)