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Particularism
Particularism meaning
An exclusive focus on a particular area, group, sect, etc. | The principle that only certain people are chosen by God for salvation. | The principle that individual states, races of a federation, etc., may act independently of a central authority.
Example sentences (2)
These are the hallmarks of Boasian anthropology (which Marvin Harris would later call "historical-particularism"), would guide Boas's research over the next decade, as well as his instructions to future students.
To adjust the matter, the magistrates arranged a colloquy between Huber and Musculus (September 2, 1587), in which the former represented the universalism, the latter the particularism, of grace.