Crossword clues for parochialism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Parochialism \Pa*ro"chi*al*ism\, n. The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The quality or state of being parochial; especially: selfish pettiness or narrowness (as of interests, opinions, or views).
WordNet
n. a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish
Wikipedia
Parochialism is the state of mind, whereby one focuses on small sections of an issue rather than considering its wider context. More generally, it consists of being narrow in scope. In that respect, it is a synonym of "provincialism". It may, particularly when used pejoratively, be contrasted to universalism. The term insularity (related to an island) may be similarly used.
The term originates from the idea of a parish ([Late] Latin: parochia), one of the smaller divisions within many Christian churches such as the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches.
Usage examples of "parochialism".
Still, interspersed between its superstitions and amulets, demons and dybbuks, Hasidism provided broad cosmic perspectives for the wretched ghetto dweller, and endowed him with a sanctity that reached deeply beyond his ragged parochialism and penetrated his soul.
Kafka, however unmistakable the ethnic source of his "liveliness" and alienation, avoided Jewish parochialism, and his allegories of pained awareness take upon themselves the entire European -- that is to say, predominantly Christian -- malaise.
She didn't even waste the mental effort it would have required to wonder if the Honorable Legislative Assemblywoman had forgotten the genocidal Rigelians and the fanatical Thebans, both of which races had been all too capable of building spaceships and neither of which had subscribed to the philosophy the Honorable Legislative Assemblywoman, with a parochialism fit to shame a medieval peasant, assumed must be universal.