Postsectarian

Quick meaning: Postsectarian is an adjective meaning After or beyond sects or sectarianism, especially as a reaction to sectarianism.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (rare) An adherent of postsectarian philosophy.

Example Sentences

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'.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• post-sectarian
• postsectarians

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sectish, intersectarian, sectarian, antisecular, antidisestablishmentarianistic, antiseparatist.

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