Sentences with phrase «extreme fundamentalism»

Per the Sundance release, the flick is about «a group of misfits [who] encounter extreme fundamentalism in Middle America.»

Coming out of extreme fundamentalism, I thought it was just the churches to which I'd been exposed early on.

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A healthy appropriation of the Creed, Johnson believes, will help avoid the extremes of both modernism and sectarian fundamentalism.

Christian fundamentalism is taken to be the most extreme form of the erroneous claim to possession of an exclusive and infallible revelation.

when I first started reading up on how extreme Christian fundamentalism has become in the last 30 yrs (since I left Evangelicalism), I was stunned to find that there is a whole movement afoot to keep children, especially girls, from attending college — yes, even BJU — for fear of them being «indoctrinated» with «liberal ideas».

Because fundamentalism must draw its adherents from among those who are outside the religious mainstream, it tends to ally with populist extremes.

I will sometimes selectively use it when encountering extreme dogma, ignorance, trolling, or fundamentalism.

Perhaps this is why we see such a strong connection between the extreme political right and religious fundamentalism in the United States and in other primitive backwaters of the world.

Towards the end of the century an extreme reaction against any accomodation to higher criticism gave rise to the beginnings of Fundamentalism — stressing what its adherents believed were the basic tenets of the Gospel — a movement which was to assume larger dimensions after 1914.

They offer a middle option between the extremes of fundamentalism and dogmatic secularism.

It took place in an atmosphere of respectful listening and learning, consciously seeking a via media between the more - publicised extreme schools of «anti-Darwinian» biblical fundamentalism (young - earth creationism) and «ultra-Darwinian» atheism (scientism).

Krakauer examines the obscure world of Mormon fundamentalism, as well as violence that is rooted in religious beliefs taken to extremes.

What we are seeing is the emergence of «scientific fundamentalism» married quite often to extreme left and «back to medieval utopia» beliefs.