Sentences with phrase «fundamentalism in»

I'd suggest that we have seen some fine examples of secular fundamentalism in the news this week.

It is a manifestation of the resurgence of pagan fundamentalism in the West.

Malani originally studied classical painting, but abandoned this tradition in the 1990s as a reaction to a growing religious fundamentalism in Indian politics.

Everyone I've informed about the basic geography of the world of THT is astonished to find out that Gilead is New England and the center of Christian fundamentalism in Atwood's world is Cambridge Mass..

Starting out in that fateful year for religion, 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled the Jews and the Muslims from Spain and opened virgin Christian missionary territory in America, Armstrong tells the story of fundamentalism in the world's great monotheisms and argues that it is as much a product of modernity as the materialism and empiricism against which it fearfully reacts.

Karen Armstrong talks about the fundamentalist phenomenon, why she chose to focus on fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in The Battle for God, how this relates to modernization, and why she feels Fundamentalists are becoming more radical.

Q: There seems to be a recent interest in fundamentalism in our culture.

Warring ideologies: The use of education policy to control religious fundamentalism in Pakistan.

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

If a buyer can't be found - and the Labour leadership plays its cards right - this could be a turning point in the continued decline of free market fundamentalism in the UK.

To end on a non-political note, OTM also examined the life of Aimee Semple McPherson, a televangelist before television and a fascinating figure in the development of both media stardom and the rise of Christian fundamentalism in America, as well as at Slate's recent slideshow on the history of racist product spokescharacters.

One of the most interesting questions in the sociology of religion today is not, How do you explain fundamentalism in Iran?

It appears that the kind of fundamentalism in which the Christian believer turned biblical debunker was raised did not prepare him for the challenges he would face in college.

However, fundamentalism in American society has typically consisted of unrelated, often antisocial small pockets of society.

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.

However, the upheaval of the «20s has received renewed public concern in recent years because of the revival of fundamentalism in the US and the sponsorship of creationism in schools as opposed to the teaching of evolution.

I apologize if my satire seems hateful but that is due to my belief that fundamentalism in government brings evil and that includes non-religious forms such as pure capitalism, communism, fascism and so on.

Fundamentalism in a variety of forms exists in Judaism and Islam, in militant forms of Hinduism and Sikhism in India and in Confucian renewal in Japan, Taiwan and Korea (Marty & Appleby 1991).

Fundamentalism in any religion is a scary and dangerous thing.

Fundamentalism in America is not simply an expression of backward yokels.

Fundamentalism in all its forms, traditionalist and sectarian, affirms the ontological and the historical, but repudiates the category of the mythological, thus manifesting either insensitiveness to the vastness of the mystery of God's being and purpose, or else ignorance of the true nature and the necessary limits of history.

Indeed, instances of religious fundamentalism in many parts of the world suggest there may be some validity to these arguments.

It differs from traditional fundamentalism in that it acknowledges love a fundamental element of faith, but it remains distinct from mere moralism in that it includes certain basic beliefs about God and Jesus Christ.

Fundamentalism in any religion is dangerous.

I would also be inclined to give greater emphasis to the more «classical» roots of modern fundamentalism in the post-Reformation traditions of both Reformed and Lutheran scholasticism and perhaps be willing to suggest that the line is not so totally devoid of theological insight as Barr seems to indicate.

(ENTIRE BOOK) An excellent brief analysis of fundamentalism in three major faiths — Christianity, Islam and Judiasm.

Nevertheless, downward mobility appears to be the occasion for the rise of fundamentalism in a number of instances.

The fear inherent within modernity, the anxiety that the ideological Other calls my worldview into question, is one explanation for rise of fundamentalism in the modern era.

In addition to enhancing our understanding of fundamentalism in the U.S., Fundamentalisms Observed, edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby (University of Chicago Press, 872 pp., $ 40.00), demonstrates the extent to which fundamentalism is a worldwide phenomenon.

Carpenter makes the case for this modest but important assertion as well as anyone who has written about fundamentalism in recent years.

Modern philosophy was a little like fundamentalism in that the characteristic obsession of the rationalist with clarity and decontextualized truth expresses a fear that once you put things in context, once you let contingency back in, cherished verities may crumble.

Carpenter begins by demonstrating that fundamentalism in the «30s and «40s was not a formless aggregate of disgruntled religious conservatives but a vigorous, self - conscious and comprehensive movement.

Until the early 1970s historians of Pentecostalism argued that the movement emerged ex nihilo at the turn of this century as an alternative to fundamentalism in protesting the modernist trend that was capturing mainline Protestantism.

The Islamic world encounters the face of Christian fundamentalism in the trigger - happy fundamentalist cowboy from Texas who, as president of the most powerful nation on earth, is ready to wage war against any nation that stands in the way of America's economic interests.

The western world encounters the face of Islamic fundamentalism in the terrorist acts of suicide bombers who are determined to kill and destroy.

Point being, fundamentalism in any religion is frightening, that is why people who sound as if they want a theocracy should be avoided like the plague.

Let us start with Christian fundamentalism in America, since that is where the term originated.

Gilles Kepel, after studying the rise of fundamentalism in Islam, Christianity and Judaism, particularly from the 1970s onward, warned of its dangers in his book The Revenge of God.

We can see the importance of this vision in Carl Henry's critique of fundamentalism in the late 1940s.

(3) Related to this enlightenment location of Wesleyanism is the fact that Wesleyanism differs from fundamentalism in its analysis of the human problem.

So as we witness an increase in open - mindedness in all its expressions, we will also witness an increase in fundamentalism in all its expressions.

I don't find the abusive nature of Fundamentalism in religion or politics life affirming.

But now the Church will have its revenge: through the machinations of the Pope, official Catholicism has forged a tactical alliance with Islamic fundamentalism in order to roll back, and then rout, the Enlightenment heritage.

Metropolitan John voiced his critique of Orthodox fundamentalism in no uncertain terms; he also repeatedly encouraged the scholars to publish their reflections on the subject of the upcoming pan-Orthodox Council.

Not exact matches

that she alone would protect them against Islamic fundamentalism and globalisation if elected president in May.

that she alone would protect them against Islamic fundamentalism and globalization if elected president in May.

In this regard, patriarch Bartholomew and metropolitan John Zizioulas are notable exceptions, who staunchly oppose Orthodox fundamentalism and manifest a greater openness of the church leadership to the world.

And this is why Islamic Fundamentalism and Christian Fundamentalism are very different, and to say that Islamic Shariah Law with a Holy Jihad peacefully co-existing with the so - called Non-Believers in America is the Fallacy of the Socialist Liberal Ideological who wrote this article.

As an atheist, I prefer Catholicism to evangelical / fundamentalism, the Catholic church while having some rough spots with science, arts, and literature in the past has made strong efforts to co-exist with the science / educated community (they were some of the best scientists, writers, artists, etc).

Your religious fundamentalism is theistic and based solely on your tiny fraction of a belief in the possibility despite all evidence to the contrary.