Communalism may refer to:
- African communalism, a system of interdependence in rural Africa
- Christian communism, form of religious communism based on Christianity
- Communalism (Bookchin), a theory of government in which autonomous communities form confederations
- , a historical method that follows the development of communities
- Communalism (South Asia), violence across ethnic or communal boundaries
- The type of property ownership pursued in some planned, socially-cohesive, residential communities.
- Medieval communalism, a system of mutual allegiance and defense between cities in the European Middle Ages
- Municipalism, governance by a region's local administrative division
- Democratic confederalism, otherwise known as Kurdish communalism
See also