Noun
The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; a system of management peculiar to parishes.
Source: Webster's dictionaryScientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research. Hannes Alfvén
We want to establish such an Islamic society, where there shall be appeared no heterogeneous isms in the name of progressiveness, nor any Mazhabi parochialism in the name of Islam. Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib
Daneel continues to explain that human internal warfare or parochialism was the reason for his causing the creation of psychohistory and Gaia. Source: Internet
In August 1988, there were sufficient undercurrents to indicate that drum-beater of parochialism and fundamentalism was working overtime. Source: Internet
Canada’s early can-do spirit had been replaced by not-in-my-backyard parochialism. Source: Internet
And when I speak of parochialism I don't mean merely Australian parochialism, I also mean Western parochialism, which is sometimes called first-world parochialism and which is, as you well know, well and truly alive. Source: Internet