Talk:Fundamentalism

From Citizendium
Revision as of 10:48, 11 March 2013 by imported>Peter Jackson (→‎Further enlargement)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is developing and not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
To learn how to update the categories for this article, see here. To update categories, edit the metadata template.
 Definition Form of religion that holds to scriptural inerrantism or similarly strict literalism. [d] [e]
Checklist and Archives
 Workgroup category Religion [Please add or review categories]
 Talk Archive none  English language variant American English

Why Christian?

Is not Salafism and Haredi Judaism fundamentalist? Howard C. Berkowitz 22:07, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Well, there is a distinciton between fundamentalism and Fundamentalism just as there is between lower-case and upper-case conservatism, communism, catholicism and so on. Every religion can have it's fundamentalists, but only Protestant Christianity has Fundamentalism. Perhaps we need some disambiguation. –Tom Morris 22:16, 2 June 2009 (UTC)


Further enlargement

I came across this page because under the heading of Gujarat I had written of Hindu fundamentalism, and I found what is here good so far as it goes. I have added additional clarification to reflect normal usage, but I also wanted to add something to the Generic section, for which I do not have any references: it seems to me that "fundamentalism" is also used to refer to teachings which have no "scriptural" support. For instance the Koran/Quran does not endorse intolerance of Judaism or Christianity, but many Muslim so-called fundamentalists do endorse it. --Martin Wyatt 21:13, 9 March 2013 (UTC)

I see the definition above calls it a sect, which is absurd. In the narrower sense it's a movement.
More generally, it's often used as a generalized term of abuse, like fascist, homophobe, holocaust denier &c. As I understand it, sociologists use the term to refer to a certain psychosocial attitude, self-conscious holding on to beliefs in reaction to cahnges in the soial milieu, or something like that. Peter Jackson 15:48, 11 March 2013 (UTC)