postsectarian

comparative more postsectarian · superlative most postsectarian · alternative post-sectarian

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

   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'.

   2001, Marion Maddox, For God and Country: religious dynamics in Australian federal politics, Australia. Dept. of the Parliamentary Library, Information and Research Services, chap. 1

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   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.

   1985, Sidney Earl Mead, The Nation with the Soul of a Church, Mercer University Press, →ISBN, page 11

   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.

   2000, Christian G. Appy, Cold War Constructions: The Political Culture of United States Imperialism, 1945-1966, Univ of Massachusetts Press, →ISBN, page 233

plural postsectarians · alternative post-sectarian

1. rareAn adherent of postsectarian philosophy.