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What does exclusivism mean?

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Noun
  1. The practice of being exclusive; a mentality or policy that excludes others.
  2. (religion) The doctrine that one religion is the only true religion, or that one religious sect is the only true version of a larger religion.
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A powerful example of the first type is ethnic exclusivism, whose extreme form is found in the Fascist idea of race pride.
Terror and force are even more painful when committed in the name of fundamentalist religiosity or religious exclusivism.
There were allegations of exclusivism, hurtful practices like shunning, as well as an overbearing doctrine of personal sin.
If exclusivism is unwarrantedly dogmatic, inclusivism and pluralism are unacceptably indeterminate.
It is a front-line ideological battle between pluralism vs. exclusivism.
We shall oppose ourselves to any forms of privilege and national exclusivism, such as unilinguism.

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