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Sectarianism vs Postsectarian - What's the difference?

sectarianism | postsectarian |

As nouns the difference between sectarianism and postsectarian

is that sectarianism is rigid adherence to a particular sect, party or denomination while postsectarian is an adherent of postsectarian philosophy.

As an adjective postsectarian is

after or beyond sects or sectarianism, especially as a reaction to sectarianism.

sectarianism

English

(wikipedia sectarianism)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Rigid adherence to a particular sect, party or denomination.
    • They were discussing sectarianism between Shias and Sunnis.

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    postsectarian

    English

    Alternative forms

    * post-sectarian

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • After or beyond sects or sectarianism, especially as a reaction to sectarianism.
  • *1985 , Sidney Earl Mead, The Nation with the Soul of a Church , Mercer University Press, ISBN 9780865541887, pg. 11:
  • *:This development is to be seen in the context of the current popularity of describing aspects of the present scene as "post" something—post-Christian, post-Constantinian, post-Protestant, postliberal, postmodern, postsectarian , postcommunist, not to mention the almost sacred posts of the biblical scholars.
  • *2000 , Christian G. Appy, Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966 , Univ of Massachusetts Press, ISBN 9781558492189, pg. 233:
  • *:For if the core members of the Vietnam Lobby stood for anything in the 1950s, it was a vision of a postsectarian world whose embrace of the "culture concept" ensured universal tolerance and human freedom, the veritable free marketplace of ideas for which expansive Americans had so long yearned.
  • *2001 , Marion Maddox, For God and Country: religious dynamics in Australian federal politics , Australia. Dept. of the Parliamentary Library, Information and Research Services, ISBN 9780642527240, chap. 1:
  • *:Indeed, the field reads like postsectarian , postpartisan Australia's collective sigh of relief at having left behind what Robert Alford, in 1963, called our 'politics of class and religion'.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) An adherent of postsectarian philosophy.
  • *1963', Val Clear, "Reflections of a '''Postsectarian ," ''The Christian Century , 80 (Jan. 16, 1963), 72-75.