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Fundamentalism and Charismatic Movements (Hardcover, New)
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Fundamentalism and Charismatic Movements (Hardcover, New)
Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies
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The term 'fundamentalism' carries a wide range of meanings, some of
them pejorative. Here it is used to refer to what the French call
'integrism', meaning a religious code which encompasses and governs
with its prescriptions the entire private and public life of
individuals and the collectivity. The prime examples in the
contemporary world are Muslim renewal; Christian evangelical and
charismatic churches, sects, and tendencies; and Ultra-Orthodox
Judaism. These three varieties of movement represent radical
departures from the traditions out of which they have grown. These
new forms can be characterized in terms of their ability to plug
into local cultural practices and incorporate them without
theorizing; ability to provide a framework for coping with serious
social ills among the marginalized; ability to create transcultural
communities of individuals without regard to prior political,
linguistic, or ethnic frontiers; obsessive attention to the control
of sexuality, especially female; belief in the literal truth of
every word in the holy text; and their emphasis on conversion as a
crisis and rupture in the life of individuals. Even in its early
days, Pentecostalism was a multicultural, multi-ethnic movement,
drawing on black Americans, and the Mexican, European, and Asian
migrant communities in America for its following. Today, in some
countries (such as Nigeria and Ghana) the appeal seems to be more
to the middle-class groups, while in others, such as in Latin
America and the Philippines, it is most successful among the urban
poor and among indigenous peoples, and represents a profound change
after five centuries of a virtual Catholic monopoly. In Islam and
Judaism an erudite strand of learning has co-existed with a
proliferation of healers and seers. Modern Jewish fundamentalists
are however overwhelmingly focused on texts, and although their
heritage in Eastern Europe has a strong element of ecstatic prayer,
that has tended to take second place in the post-Holocaust era to
an institutionalization of learning. In Islam, likewise, the
renewal movements, led usually by lay people rather than clergy
(except in Iran), focus on the text of the Qur'an and are hostile
to mystical heritage embodied by Sufism. This new, four-volume
collection from Routledge makes available a range of materials
which represent: (a) the most important recent analytical and
descriptive contributions to the subject; (b) some doctrinal and
historical texts; and (c) a representative coverage of the subject
by theme and geographical area. It is sure to be welcomed by
scholars and students as an indispensable resource for reference
and research.
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