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Fundamentalisms Comprehended (Hardcover, New)
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Fundamentalisms Comprehended (Hardcover, New)
Series: Fundamentalism Project S., v. 5
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This volume marks the culmination of the "Fundamentalism Project",
a series that brings together scholars from around the world to
explore the nature and impact of fundamentalist movements in the
20th century. Based on an interdisciplinary programme conducted by
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the series is dedicated
to promoting an understanding of fundamentalism at a time when
misinformation and misperceptions have exacerbated national and
international conflicts. The four previous volumes provide
information on the social, political, cultural and religious
contexts of fundamentalism in the major religious traditions. In
this fifth volume, the contributors return to, and test, the
project'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. Some contributors challenge the idea that
fundamentalism is a distinctively modern phenomenon, while others
question whether the term "fundamentalist" can accurately be
applied to movements outside Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
Several of the essays also employ new approaches, drawn from
literary criticism and from psychology, in their assessments of the
problems of comparing fundamentalisms. This 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 behaviour
toward outsiders, this statement provides an explanatory framework
for understanding and comparing fundamentalisms around the world.
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