Fundamentalisms Comprehended

Informationen zum Autor Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby direct the Fundamentalism Project. Marty! the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of modern Christianity at the University of Chicago! is the senior editor of "Christian Century." His many books include the multivolume "Modern American Religion!" also published by the University of Chicago Press. Appleby! director of Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame! is the author of "Church and the Age Unite!: The Modernist Impulses in American Catholicism." Klappentext In this fifth volume of the Fundamentalism Project! "Fundamentalisms Comprehended!" the distinguished contributors return to and test the endeavor's beginning premise: that fundamentalisms in all faiths share certain "family resemblances." Several of the essays reconsider the project's original definition of fundamentalism as a reactive! absolutist! and comprehensive mode of anti-secular religious activism. The book concludes with a capstone statement by R. Scott Appleby! Emmanuel Sivan! and Gabriel Almond that builds upon the entire Fundamentalism Project. Identifying different categories of fundamentalist movements! and delineating four distinct patterns of fundamentalist behavior toward outsiders! this statement provides an explanatory framework for understanding and comparing fundamentalisms around the world. Zusammenfassung The authors test the theory that fundamentalisms in all religions share common characteristics. Several essays reconsider the project's original definition of fundamentalism as a reactive! absolutist! and comprehensive mode of anti-secular religious activism.

Klappentext
In this fifth volume of the Fundamentalism Project, "Fundamentalisms Comprehended," the distinguished contributors return to and test the endeavor's beginning premise: that fundamentalisms in all faiths share certain "family resemblances." Several of the essays reconsider the project's original definition of fundamentalism as a reactive, absolutist, and comprehensive mode of anti-secular religious activism. The book concludes with a capstone statement by R. Scott Appleby, Emmanuel Sivan, and Gabriel Almond that builds upon the entire Fundamentalism Project. Identifying different categories of fundamentalist movements, and delineating four distinct patterns of fundamentalist behavior toward outsiders, this statement provides an explanatory framework for understanding and comparing fundamentalisms around the world.


Zusammenfassung
The authors test the theory that fundamentalisms in all religions share common characteristics. Several essays reconsider the project's original definition of fundamentalism as a reactive, absolutist, and comprehensive mode of anti-secular religious activism.

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