"This book investigates the origins of fundamentalism, outlining
its characteristics and the history of key fundamentalist movements
around the world, considering examples from Christianity, Islam,
Buddhism, and Hinduism. The book argues that fundamentalism
develops when modern lay religious leaders challenge the authority
of secular states and traditional religious establishments. These
new leaders and their followers seek to infuse religious values and
practices into all spheres, especially law, politics, education,
and science. The patterns of religious authority and leadership
that characterize fundamentalism have their roots in a Christian
context but were globalized through intense intercultural contacts
after the mid-nineteenth century. Fundamentalism is a thoroughly
modern and global phenomenon because it presupposes the
globalization of ideas and practices concerning religious
leadership and organization, as well as universal changes in the
relationship of religion to modern societies and states"--
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