| Book Title | Fundamentalism The Searching Of Meaning |
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Fundamentalism – The Searching Of Meaning
FUNDAMENTALISM – THE SEARCHING OF MEANING
This essay is the fruit of several years’ reflection about the religious revivals that seem to be occurring in all the major religious traditions and the capacity these revivals have for generating highly charged social and political conflicts in a shrinking ‘globalized’ world where people of differing and competing faiths are having to live in close proximity with each other.
While recognizing that ‘fundamentalism’ is a fact of life in the twenty-first century—one that was illustrated in the most spectacular way on n September 2001—it seeks to untangle some of the meanings associated with the term, despite its obvious drawbacks.
‘Fundamentalism’ originated in the very specific theological context of early twentieth-century Protestant America, and its applicability beyond its original matrix is—to put it mildly—problematic.
Nevertheless, as I hope to show through numerous examples and parallels, there are compelling ‘family resemblances’ between militancies or fundamentalisms in different religious traditions.
They may not add up to a coherent ideological alternative to the triumph of liberal democracy as described by Francis Fukuyama in his celebrated 1992 essay The End of History and the Last Man. But they are symptomatic, I believe, of the spiritual dystopias and
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