Sentence examples for denominationalism from inspiring English sources
noun
The division of one religion into separate groups, sects, schools of thought or denominations.
But the increasingly powerful haredi rabbis insist that converts pledge to become Orthodox.Flashpoint conversionConversion is the point where religious rigidity, Israeli politics and diaspora denominationalism clash.
Nancy T. Ammerman, a sociologist at Boston University, said Wednesday that this was more a "decline in participation in organized religion, not a decline in denominationalism".
The glass of denominationalism is at least half full, she wrote two months ago in the liberal Protestant weekly The Christian Century.
"Unlike the denominationalism Niebuhr feared, they are building distinctions based more on ritual and doctrine than on social divisions," she concluded.
This decline of denominationalism is not really surprising.
Richard Niebuhr, made his reputation by dissecting "The Social Sources of Denominationalism," a landmark study in American religion.
