postsectarian

English

Alternative forms

• post-sectarian

Etymology

post- +‎ sectarian

Adjective

postsectarian (comparative more postsectarian, superlative most postsectarian)

1. 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, page 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, page 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, 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

postsectarian (plural postsectarians)

1. (rare) An adherent of postsectarian philosophy.
   • 1963, Val Clear, “Reflections of a Postsectarian”, in The Christian Century, 80 (Jan. 16, 1963), 72-75: