Fundamentalisms' Compared

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4890263
AutoresHenry Munson (0000-0002-0176-1640, University of Maine, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen2
Número4
Páginas689-707
Fecha de publicación2008-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligion Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1749-8171.2008.00088.x
OpenAlexW3094717179
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas14

The term 'fundamentalist' is often used indiscriminately. In this essay, the term is used to refer to movements that insist on strict conformity to a sacred text and to a moral code ostensibly based on it. Such movements often also articulate secular grievances such as nationalistic resentment of foreign domination. To focus only on the fundamentalist dimension of such groups is, in some cases at least, to ignore some of the principal sources of their appeal. One should avoid assuming that moral outrage ostensibly provoked by the violation of traditional religious values is really a mere reflection of nationalistic, ethnic, or other social grievances. But one should also avoid ignoring social grievances when the available evidence suggests that they are in fact relevant

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