Religious fundamentalism
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- Religious fundamentalism
- Giddens
- Fundamentalism
- Defend traditional beliefs in the literal truth of scriptures and faith-based answers.
- Traditional dogmatism - traditional authority goes largely unquestioned and compulsory; submission to authority.
- Avoid contact with those with different views.
- Justifies beliefs with dogma; reliance on guardians of traditions.
- Resistance to change; want a return of the basic of their faith.
- Cosmopolitanism
- Tolerant of other views and are open to new ideas and values.
- Reflexivity - making conscious decisions and monitoring life to better it; pursit of personal meaning.
- Make contct with those who are different to them.
- Justifies their belief by referring to rational arguements and evidence; reliance on experts.
- Modify their thinking in light of new information.
- Fundamentalism
- Responses to postmodernity
- Bauman - fundamentalism as a response to living in postmodernity, which brings freedom of choice, uncertainity and risk, undermining old certainties.
- Castells - two responses to posmodernity.
- Resistant identity - defensive reaction of those who feel threatened and retreat to fundamentalist groups.
- Project identity - those who are foward-looking and engage with social movements.
- Criticisms
- Beckford - the distinctions are too sharp which ignores hybrid movements.
- Fixated on fundamentalism and ignores other developements e.g. how globalisation is affecting non- fundamentalist religions.
- Giddens lumps all types of fundamentalism together ignoring the differences.
- Gidden's 'defense reaction to modernity' ignores the act that reinventing tradition is also modern.
- Haynes - shouldn't focus on the idea that Islamic fundamentalism is a reaction to globalisation.
- Monotheism & fundamentalism
- Bruce - main cause of fundamentalism is the preception by religious traditionalists that globalisation threatens their beliefs and lifestyle.
- Fundamentalism is being confined to monotheistic religions as they base God's will as revealed through a single authoritative sacred text - believed to contain the actual word of God.
- Polytheistic religions lack a single all powered deity and authorative text and believe in more than one god - unlikely to produce fundamentalism.
- Different fundamentalist movements have different origins.
- West - a reaction to change taking place within society e.g. NCR is against diversity, gender inequality, etc. and they aim to reassert 'true' relgion and restore into the public sphere.
- Third World - a reaction of changes being thrust on a society from outside e.g. 'Western' values are imposed by foreign capitalism/local elites, so they resistance to the state's attempts to reduce the social influence of religion.
- Giddens
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