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disjuncture

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dis·junc·ture  (ds-jngkchr)
n.
Disjunction; disunion; separation.
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Noun1.disjuncture - state of being disconnected
separation - the state of lacking unity
separability - the capability of being separated
incoherence, incoherency - lack of cohesion or clarity or organization

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Nine studies, based on field research conducted throughout Yorubaland, focus on cloth and clothing used in "traditionalist," Christian, and Islamic settings to identify continuities and disjunctures in the use, formal qualities, and meaning of religious textiles over the past one hundred years.
The more open political system at the local level in Mexico and citizens' persistent faith in elections despite widespread corruption suggests that there may be less of a disjuncture between civil and political society than Forment argues.
She believed that there was an inherent mutuality between religion and culture and contended there was no radical disjuncture between the sacred and the secular, the political and the moral.
 
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