Word: sectarianism
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...decided that politics was unstable as a career. His dissertation, on the early history of church-related colleges, is still remembered. "It was a first-rate piece of work," says Professor James Roark, "but I'm not sure Ralph would want it published today." The paper criticized some sectarian schools for trading off their religious heritage in exchange for endowments. In fact, Reed is proud of its argument: that traditional Christian values -- as born-again conservatives define them -- deserve to be protected...
Political fashions drift from left to right. The enthusiastic sectarian style of American communists during the 1930s and 1940s traveled with the neoconservatives when they washed ashore as immigrants to the land of conservatism during the 1970s and 1980s. The rallying cry of race-blind equal opportunity, which was of little interest to right-wingers during the heyday of the civil rights movement, was later taken as the right's own in the struggle over affirmative action. And now, having spent recent years diagnosing a virus of democracy they label "political correctness," some conservatives seem to be succumbing themselves...
Those who opposed Westminster's policy contended that a teacher's religious beliefs should not be considered relevant to his or her qualifications. Such dismissal of an entire group as unqualified would be mere sectarian prejudice...
...weeks earlier on New York City's World Trade Center, which the first Bombay bombing appeared to resemble, at first no person or group claimed responsibility. Speculation as to the bombers focused on, among others, separatist groups backed by Pakistan and Hindu and Muslim militants in the wake of sectarian rioting in Bombay last December and January that claimed 900 lives. By Saturday police were questioning several suspects, but no arrests had been made...
Thus did the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao finally show resolve in dealing with India's spreading sectarian violence. But the B.J.P. also scored, displaying a measure of discipline lost in last December's riotous destruction of Ayodhya's historic Muslim mosque. Convinced it can ride to power on a Hindu wave, the B.J.P. plans to continue its protest campaign to force national elections...