civilizationist

English

Etymology

From civilization +‎ -ist.

Noun

civilizationist (plural civilizationists)

  1. A proponent of civilizationism.
    • 2017 December 6, Rogers Brubaker, “The New Language of European Populism”, in brubaker.scholar.ss.ucla.edu‎[1], pages 3-4:
      Civilizationist populism was first pioneered a decade and a half ago by the Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn. […] At the same time that they invoke Christian identity, the civilizationists also stress their secularism. But there is no contradiction between the populist right’s Christianism and its secularism, since both derive from a preoccupation with Islam.
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