Fundamentalisms Comprehended

Fundamentalisms Comprehended
ISBN-10
0226508889
ISBN-13
9780226508887
Category
Political Science
Pages
522
Language
English
Published
2004-05
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Authors
Martin E. Marty, R. Scott Appleby

Description

In this fifth volume of the Fundamentalism Project, Fundamentalisms Comprehended, the distinguished contributors return to and test the endeavor's beginning premise: that fundamentalisms in all faiths share certain "family resemblances." Several of the essays reconsider the project's original definition of fundamentalism as a reactive, absolutist, and comprehensive mode of anti-secular religious activism. The book concludes with a capstone statement by R. Scott Appleby, Emmanuel Sivan, and Gabriel Almond that builds upon the entire Fundamentalism Project. Identifying different categories of fundamentalist movements, and delineating four distinct patterns of fundamentalist behavior toward outsiders, this statement provides an explanatory framework for understanding and comparing fundamentalisms around the world.

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