"universalist" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that describes something that has general or widespread application. For example, you could use it in a sentence like, "The professor is an advocate for universalist solutions to global problems."
It is one thing to be universalist, anti-racist and pro-human rights when looking back, but it takes a more reflexive attitude to history to account for the structure of the present through past wrongs, and our place within that historical context.
And this universalist idea grew ever stronger in subsequent years.
That would be enough to make the world a better place".Rod Dreher, a conservative American blogger, spoke for many in his corner when, after approving the pope's comments on power, he said he could not understand the universalist (or to put it another way, relativist) spirit which the statement about "following the good" seemed to reflect.
It is amazing, in Mr Aslan's condescending view, that so many people have failed to see this.He argues that the universalist pacifism ascribed to Jesus was superimposed on him several decades after his death, in the climate created by the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70AD.
The Tories cannot trumpet such a plan, for fear of being accused of dismantling the universalist principles of the NHS.
His own religious feelings and those of his wife who practised theosophy (a movement that seeks truth in all great faiths) were decidedly universalist, reflecting his strong connections with India.
Britain is however alone among rich EU countries to have a universalist welfare system all the others are more contribution-based.
He rejects the theory of rivalry over universalist revolutionary models, arguing that the French never regarded the American version to be a match for their own; they considered the new-world version to be insufficiently revolutionary.
That prospect, however, masks what Mr Mishra concedes is an "immense intellectual failure", because "no convincingly universalist response exists today to Western ideas of politics and economy".The ways of the West may not be working.
1900-1931 is the era of the "primacy of the republic", when ideas about France's universalist message, its faith in reason and civilisation, and its secular anti-clericalism were entrenched.
Still, Mr Juergensmeyer is right in his broader point that in the early 21st century, religion retains a mobilising power that secular nationalism and universalist ideologies like Marxism have lost.
