Religious Fundamentalism, Definition Precise and General
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- Created on: 16-05-17 20:28
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- Religious Fundamentalism
- Generic fundamentalism
- Historian Grant Wacker defines as 'a global impulse that seeks to recover and publicly institutionalise aspects of the past that the modern life has obscured'
- sees secularism as an enemy because of its disinterest in preserving spirituality
- and focus on education and economic progress
- values one sacred text that stands above criticism
- sees cultural ideas and patterns as truths rooted in creation
- so clear cut role for men, women, children, clergy and laity
- tries merge state and church
- people following different sets of rules could lead to trouble for both individuals and community
- Religious truth are seen as absolutes that everyone must adhere to
- Historic Fundamentalism
- Evangelical Protestant Christian movement in America in late 19th and early 20th century
- reaction against Evolutionary theory and modern Biblical Criticism
- Historian George Marsden defined ''as the demand for a strict adherence to certain theological doctrines in reaction against modernist theology''
- Protestants claimed they were defending the five fundamentals of Christianity that were issued at Niagra Creed
- 1. Biblical Inerrancy in science and history, 2. Divinity of Christ, 3. The Virgin Birth, 4. Substitutionary theory of atonement and 5. Physical resurrection and bodily return of Christ
- Evangelical Protestant Christian movement in America in late 19th and early 20th century
- Extremism
- some groups identify themselves as fundamentalist while carrying out terrorism
- Scholars believe, the term has become meaningless as a result
- Scholars believe, the term has become meaningless as a result
- some groups identify themselves as fundamentalist while carrying out terrorism
- Generic fundamentalism
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