sectarianism

IPA: sɛktˈɛriʌnɪzʌm

Rigid adherence to a particular sect, denomination, ideology, or party.
(politics) A political system in which power is shared among religious sects based on a constitutional formula distributing public offices among these sects

Examples of "sectarianism" in Sentences

The French president says he rejects the idea of sectarianism and self-confinement.
The term sectarianism originated with the Protestant Reformation starting in the 1500s.
Al-Sumaria Iraqi satellite TV station yesterday, al-Maliki called sectarianism "the root of Iraq problems."
The question has to do with the problem we know as sectarianism that often occurs between comrades of the leftwing parties.
First of all congratulations on doing such a great job of planting the seeds of awareness in the hearts of so many that sectarianism is self defeating.
ALLAWI: Unless the government decides to embark on a course of national unity or national reconciliation, on getting away from sectarianism, which is crushing the Iraqi people, it's very difficult to rejoin the government.
Then, for that vice of the mind which I call sectarianism, -- not in the religious sense of the word, but little, narrow prejudices, that make you hate your next-door neighbor because he has his eggs roasted when you have yours boiled; and gossipping and prying into people's affairs, and backbiting, and thinking heaven and earth are coming together if some broom touch a cobweb that you have let grow over the window-sill of your brains what like a large and generous, mildly aperient (I beg your pardon, my dear) course of history!