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exclusivism
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ex·clu·siv·ism  (k-skls-vzm)
n.
The practice of excluding or of being exclusive.

ex·clusiv·ist adj. & n.


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Compared with the other groups, Wuthnow finds the exclusivists best able to maintain their worldview in the face of otherness, and identifies such social factors as restricted networks, lower cultural capital, and a consequent deference to credentialed authorities (in their realms), as enabling this preservation.
Theorists offer meta-theoretical positions on the study of religion: the hermeneutic emphasis on personal interpretation, explanatory exclusivists who discount subjective interpretation as unscientific, and interactionists who welcome both other approaches.
Any defender of a tolerant pluralistic civil society seeking to find compromise with exclusivists would do well to dwell on this point.
 
 
 
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