Meanings
comparative more Christianocentric · superlative most Christianocentric
- Centred on or overemphasizing Christianity and/or Christians.
Those who dislike supposedly Christianocentric periodizations might be expected to be allergic to Islamocentric ones too; […]
2014, Garth Fowden, Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused, Princeton University Press, published 2014, →ISBN, page 862 more examples
As we have seen, there are many such statements, but no public school teacher would ever — or should ever — get away with suggesting to fifth graders that these statements are any more representative of the wide diversity of beliefs held by the founders than are the Christianocentric statements wrenched out of context and selectively served up by Williams.
2008, Alan Dershowitz, Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, Wiley, published 2008, →ISBN, page 105Freud has brilliantly led the 'popular' thinker to the core of his scandalous assertion that, beyond even the displaced idea of normal/abnormal, he is prepared to undo the child/adult division and with it the idea of childhood innocence and the Christianocentric idea of a corrupting fall into adult sexual knowledge which surrounds the advent of adult sexuality with its moralizing shame.
2008, Griselda Pollock, “The visual poetics of shame: a feminist reading of Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905)”, in Claire Pajaczkowska, Ivan Ward, editors, Shame and Sexuality: Pscyhoanalysis and Visual Culture, Routledge, →ISBN, page 120
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