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Fundamentalism

            
             Fundamentalism is a major religious movement that has its origins in the United States. The movement first made its appearance in the early part of the twentieth century. However, the term fundamentalism wasn't really coined until about 1920. Fundamentalism was basically a response to the loss of influence traditional revivalism experienced in America during the early years of the twentieth century. Along with this loss of influence came the liberalizing trends of German biblical criticisms and the Darwinian theory. The Darwinian theory was about the origin of the universe and focused primarily on the evolution of humans and animals alike. The loss of influence, German criticism, and the Darwinian theory of evolution is what really gave rise to the fundamentalist movement and prompted conservative churchmen to react. This reaction was, in its purest form, fundamentalism. .
             Right from the start, fundamentalism was a response of traditional evangelicals who declared war on modernizing trends. Forerunners of this movement saw it as a war that needed to be fought head on and on many fronts. What the Fundamentalists stressed was the major "fundamental" doctrines of faith. These doctrines being the virgin birth of Christ, his miracles, his bodily resurrection, his substitutionary atonement for sin, and Christ's second coming. These ideas laid the foundation for Fundamentalism. .
             To define fundamentalism is very hard. There are several people that have tried to define the term. Bruce Lawrence states "the affirmation of religious authority as holistic and absolute, admitting of neither criticism nor reduction; it is expressed through the collective demand that specific creedal and ethical dictates derived from scripture be publicly recognized and legally enforced." He believes that fundamentalism is a specific religious idealogy. Lawrence believes that the fundamentalists are antimodern, but not antimodernist.


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... under Wahhabite guidance- subsequently became the main ideological tool of the anti-communist and antinationalist struggle in the Islamic world, in alliance with Riyadh. Furthermore, Anti-Western Islamic Fundamentalism is not only an acute manifestation of an imperial policy and a reaction to the rise of the workers movement. Rather, it is an acute manifestation of opposition ... to imperialist domination and to the corrupt bourgeois regimes on which that domination depends. When a political identification between fascism and radical Islamic fundamentalism emerges from a left-wing discou...

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2. ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM

... WTC and Pentagon bombings by agents of Osama bin Laden who hijacked 4 American airliners and crashed them into the buildings. What is the current status of Islamic fundamentalism nowadays? Although fundamentalism, as an ideological trend, will not fade away soon since it still offers far-fetched, yet appealing solutions to desperate people, "extremist political Islam has failed ... United Nations Chronicle, vol.XXXVIII, no.3, 2001, http://www.un.org/Pubs/chronicle/2001/issue3/0103p10print.html, accessed January 10, 2003 • Burmesister, B.S., Col., "Rise of Islamic Fundamentalism-Over o...

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... meant the moment and the center of an area that began to "export" the Iranian revolution in the form of extremist actions and terror tactics; it was a moment when fundamentalism started to spread throughout the Muslim world under the shape of international networks that extend through a broad range of religious, economic, welfare and political institutions. These institutions fund military ... in the WTC and Pentagon bombings by agents of Osama bin Laden who hijacked 4 American airliners and crashed them into the buildings. What is the current status of Islamic fundamentalism nowadays? ...

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... and mystery - consistency and contradiction. How do you believe? Heart (mythos)? Head (logos)? Both? (Wesley - strange warming of the heart, coupled with study, worship, prayer, and discipleship). Fundamentalism manifests itself differently in Christianity than in Judaism or Islam. Christianity is much more of an ideology, a belief system. Judaism and Islam are religions of practices and behaviors. (Judaism: shema ... , phylacteries, yarmulke. Islam: prayer five times a day, bowing to Mecca, the haj or pilgrimage to Mecca, abstinence from alcohol.) Ms. Armstrong sees the error in Christi...

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5. Islamic Fundamentalism Vs Nazism

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6. The Scopes Trial: A Battle Of The Ages

... generally abandoning religion altogether.# The older generation saw their precious Victorian values slipping away. With no other solution in sight, they adopted the strict and quite over-bearing doctrine of fundamentalism. The central theme of their new movement was the literal interpretation of the Bible and, accompanying the movement, were ideals of temperance, gentility, and sexual repression.# With a large following, ... the rise of Modernism. One of the most influential laws of the era became the law against teaching evolution in schools. At the climax of the battle between Moderni...

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7. Globalization Benefits And Threats

... its last crisis. Sadly for the Marxists, dreams of capitalism's demise are probably premature. Rather the period since 1997 has witnessed less a crisis of capitalism, more a crisis of free market fundamentalism. Moreover, the crisis is less an economic one than one of governance, or more specifically the absence of international economic institutional governance since the time of the collapse of Bretton ... social embeddedness of markets. If nothing else, the challenges to globalisation that have arisen since the Asian currency crises should put paid to the more extreme versions of free...

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8. The Cause And Effects Of The Terrorist Attacks On September 11th, 2001

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9. Clash of Civilizations

... any consensus. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, if that same question was posed, I believe that most Americans would be inclined to answer "check the spread of Islamic fundamentalism". No doubt that answer might be the same in Muslim nations, but with "check the spread of American hegemony" in its place. These views are reflected and often encouraged by ... a book, helped define the position of many Western scholars better than Samuel P. Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations". In it Huntington argues that "the underlying problem for the West is not Islamic fundament...

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