What you call deracination among the Hebrews, Eric Voegelin calls the "leap of being" from a cosmological civilization, in which deities are embroiled in the physical world, to a civilization based on transcendance, in which the deities are beyond time and space.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

At least, Brown will put the deracination which is bothering you in a little better context than you seem to present it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

The anomie, deracination, and alienation they will have to endure is sad.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Beijing, a Fast Friendship] Reference

This approach would not contribute to the deracination of the political debate in South Africa, the NNP said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The other is displacement, deracination and struggle: did you know that there are 250,000 foreign domestics in Hong Kong alone?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cultural Complexity] Reference

You could see it as the deracination of the tradition, or even worse as a deliberate omission of cultural context in its appropriation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yo Mama's So Fat... - Anil Dash] Reference

The Trillings were often criticized for deracination and for the betrayal of the Left that marked their staunch anti-Communist position of the 1940s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana Trilling.] Reference

In a letter to Leonard Woolf, she describes treason as an act of deracination; it is "the root of all our human misery --- the desire to frustrate ourselves, not to be what we are.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ariel Gonzalez: The Meaning of Treason] Reference

McWilliam, whether she knows it or not, is always fighting a greater loneliness: the loss of her mother, the break with her father, her deracination (she misses, in her bone marrow, Scotland, and I don't blame her).    From Wordnik.com.  [What to Look for in Winter: A Memoir of Blindness by Candia McWilliam] Reference

Everything since has seemed a displacement, a deracination. …the speaker of these poems often teeters says Newey on the edge of self-undoing, looking forward and back and uncertain whether he is the watcher or the watched.    From Wordnik.com.  [Measuring fresh, luminous, visionary power] Reference

Wretched as he was, his deracination was exacerbated to vertigo by this awareness, and when the guards came for him hours later ( "Don't bring your bag," with a laugh), he staggered in the corridor and had to be pulled upright.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

In other words, for someone like her whose relation to her Jewishness is oh-so-much-more genuine this fuss over chopped liver reflects the deracination of Jews less authentic than her, seeking a simulacrum of that which she already possesses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chopped Liver and a Lost Literary Friendship] Reference

Fourth, a raft of novel and urgent social problems—destitution, factory safety, crime, widespread hunger, deracination of the majority population, and the creation of enormous cities—loomed large in the emerging interest in creating “sociology.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

Early medieval Catholic culture even made a place for Virgil, whose Georgics are the antithesis of deracination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

I wondered about the potential deracination of a human being mailing a letter to a character in a 500 year old play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Sources] Reference

The policy of the total deracination of the Palestinians is central to Israel's advise to the US policymakers in Iraq.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tikkun Magazine - Current Thinking] Reference

They can be explained -- in part at least -- in terms of that social deracination to which reference has already been made.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modern Religious Cults and Movements] Reference

It was a magnificent deracination in its own time and place; without it we'd probably still have child sacrifice and sacramental orgies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

The deracination from nature, BTW, reflects the Hebrew origins of Christianity, and the Hebrews 'origin as shepherds rather than farmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe] Reference

Their work, although diverse in medium, tone and approach, is often marked by recurring images of deracination, conflict, travel, war and adjustment to foreign cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

In their media they push every kind of multiculturalism, multiracialism, deracination, every kind of subtle and not so subtle attacks on our traditions, our history, our sense of pride and self worth.    From Wordnik.com.  [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference

The singer laments the deracination of working-class communities in the East End and says he is working on a musical, Olympicland, which he might stage at the Theatre Royal, Stratford during the games.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expecting Rain] Reference

The our maiger enquirer and end inexcusably is we deracination wild officer that subsister from all fortissimo the epilogue and we valdez to tera them a lendable to antifeminist and see the hardworking dance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Blacked out are the corporate executives, government officials and expatriate personnel of Western enterprises whose success amidst chaos implicates them in the deracination and death of millions of black people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissident Voice] Reference

Pool guy is the blowback to what many on the European Right see within Christianity, and they are right to see it, is that Christianity has adopted wholesale political correctness and deracination ideology of Marxism.    From Wordnik.com.  [henrymakow.com] Reference

It's all part of the continuing deracination of the act of rapping, which used to be inscribed as a specifically black act, but which has been appropriated so frequently and with such ease that it's been, in some cases, re-racinated.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Fourth, a raft of novel and urgent social problems-destitution, factory safety, crime, widespread hunger, deracination of the majority population, and the creation of enormous cities-loomed large in the emerging interest in creating "sociology.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Economist's View] Reference

There’s a strong sense here that ­displacement and deracination are our inevitable lot, but there’s also hope to be found in distance, in the free exercise of the self-critical mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Measuring fresh, luminous, visionary power] Reference

Alternatively, Thrashin’ happened to be on TV on Sunday, and its profound popularity with males of my generation only speaks to the spiritual and psychic deracination of the 80s that Friends and Crocodiles was exploring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends and Crocodiles | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference

The “aim of Israel” is nothing less than the deracination of the local Arab population, else it would not have imposed a crippling blockade upon Gaza which has placed the latter’s inhabitants on the brink of starvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Gaza: Huffington Post Takes Cues From Fox News « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference

She saw the source of Sylvia Plath's destructiveness not in her time and gender but in her "lack of national and local roots," her "foreign ancestors on both sides," her peculiar and ” once one has had it pointed out ” quite unmistakable deracination.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)] Reference

At their center, neural deracination took place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloodhype]