Ethnosectarian

Quick meaning: Ethnosectarian is an adjective meaning Being both sectarian and specific to ethnic identities.

Meaning

Being both sectarian and specific to ethnic identities.

Example Sentences

Given that military intervention has deepened rather than weakened ethnosectarian divisions, the intriguing question becomes whether that was the game plan all along.

The political and economic history (especially post-Islamic) of Southwest, Central, and South Asia is marked by episodic ethnosectarian persecutions and massive forced and voluntary movements of the various population groupings.

Since it is clear that no amount of modernization is likely to eliminate (through total assimilation) minority solidarity groups, the possibility for ethnosectarian conflict remains a constant danger should the conflict-precipitating circumstances arise.

Moreover, language, discourse, and dialogue, their definition and mobilisation, create chains of equivalence which enclose subjects within not only ethnosectarian but at times entirely self-referential and self-sustained notions of identity, practice and collective devotion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sectarian, sectarial, ethnosociological, ethnicistic, ethnosemantic, socioethnic.

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