Sentences with phrase «jewish fundamentalism»

For Jewish fundamentalism, it is not the literal meaning of the biblical text that is normative, but the rabbinic exegesis embodied in the Talmud and the Midrash.

Christian fundamentalism has adopted the strategy of confrontation; Jewish fundamentalism prefers the tactic of insulation.

For both Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, the biblical text is the cornerstone.

It has been chiefly after Israel conquered and occupied the whole of Palestine that Jewish fundamentalism has increasingly played a role in determining Israeli policy.

Not exact matches

Fundamentalism is not one movement but a collection of movements, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and so on.

This impregnable fortress was supported by Jewish self - righteousness, or religious fundamentalism.

It has been my personal experience that Judaism is often practiced with an appreciation for the cultural benefits of community and tradition without falling into the pits of fundamentalism and intellectual suicide; not that Jewish fundamentalists don't exist, they just seem to make up a smaller percentage of the overall population.

All fundamentalisms — including Jewish, Christian and Muslim — endanger world peace and security.

The renaissance of Islamic culture and politics, the rebirth of Shinto in Japan, the appearance of powerful Jewish, Hindu and Christian «fundamentalisms» in Israel, India and the U.S. — all these have raised important questions about the allegedly ineluctable process of secularization.

It is sadly ironic that fundamentalism, which prides itself on being Scriptural, turns out to be in complete conflict with one of the chief themes of Holy Scripture, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim.

Fundamentalism, whether Muslim, Christian and Jewish, is currently having the effect of reviving tribalistic nationalism.

Fundamentalism, both Christian and Jewish, is dedicated to a code of rigid sexual mores, marked by a pronounced hostility to «permissiveness» as the root of all evil.

The heavy hand of religious fundamentalism, and its subjugation of women, is central to «Gett: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem,» an overwhelmingly intense film about an Orthodox Jewish Israeli woman trying to get a religious divorce.