communalism
IPA: kʌmjˈunʌɫɪzʌm
noun
- The communal ownership of property.
- Any social system based around a community.
- (India) Stoking conflict or discrimination based on religious identity.
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Examples of "communalism" in Sentences
- Charakan, a doctor, writes about how communalism is being exploited to reach political goals:
- This communalism is a canker: whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.
- Other questions address the problem of what the French refer to as communalism, the tendency of ethnic or religious communities to resist integration in the broader society.
- Noyes believed in a kind of communalism he hoped would fix relations between men and women; both genders had equal voice in community governance, and every man was considered to be married to every woman.
- Bruno Le Maire, a loyal Sarkozy lieutenant, with the words: "When they remove all the pork from a restaurant open to the public, I think they fall into communalism, which is against the principles and spirit of the French republic."
- The twisted logic was inadvertently summed up by agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire, a loyal Sarkozy lieutenant, with the words: "When they remove all the pork from a restaurant open to the public, I think they fall into communalism, which is against the principles and spirit of the French republic."
- "India has always existed for humanity and not for herself", Aurobindo contended at Uttarpara, "and it is for humanity and not for herself that she must be great".26 The inversion of the humanistic aspiration in Hinduism and Islam alike to a parody called communalism is the signal achievement of our secularist historians, not of Aurobindo.
- It is important to reflect on our actions if our movement is really to be beyond ideologies or if we are really to be a movement that has a face and a heart that we intuitively know is based in the depths of our way of thinking, feeling and acting that we inherited from our ancestors and that in recent decades has been called communalism, understood as the common good for those that are the community.