Hearing someone casually, and without prompting, offer me a reference that encompasses what would once have been impossibly disparate and parochial experiences reminds me of the quantum leap the cultural aspects of soccer have taken in the digital age.
The solution lies in rebuilding an alliance of these parts with one grounded in the complex, everyday, parochial experiences of working people; one built around the dignity of the human being, and a modern sense of solidarity and compassion.
The Islamists are vehement in their public insistence on dislodging the idea of secularism as universal, claiming it to be a parochial, European experience – with some justification.
For Francey, a young man from ye olde parochial Belfast, the experience of raving on a Sunday night felt so exclusive that he started to believe he was in the Illuminati.
Having assumed themselves cosmopolitan, the more self-aware pundits began to realise just how parochial they were: having experienced much of the world, they discovered they didn't know their own country as well as they might.
But perhaps they will never be more fraught than in Stoke-on-Trent, a city that is not quite a city, and whose parochial otherness must be experienced to be believed: a place that is so central and yet feels so cut off, that is so very ugly and yet maintains the capacity to stun the visitor into silence with its unlikely beauty.
If I put aside parochial usage and take "spiritual experience" more generally to mean the arrival in nature of a transcendent state of being, then the very emergence of consciousness from a lineage of material strikes me as its crowning example.
The book brings together a variety of Jamaican experiences, which isn't to say that these experiences are local or parochial.
Like Euro pop, too much contemporary Turkish food tries to deliver an ethnic experience without scaring off parochial palates.
The rise of computing in the humanities is testament to the "increasing prestige of metrics", Cohen continues, methods that come from science and which discount individual experience as "hopelessly subjective and parochial".
