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Fundamentalisms Comprehended

By Martin E. Marty , R. Scott Appleby

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0226508870, 9780226508870, 9780226508887
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
38 MB (39899099 bytes)
Series
The Fundamentalism Project (5)
Pages
528\544
Topic
Religion
Time added
2024-06-08 08:40:59
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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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