Crossword clues for fundamentalism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fundamentalism \fundamentalism\ n.
A system of beliefs based on the interpretation of every word in the Bible, both old and new testaments, as literal truth. It is primarily held by a branch of American Protestants.
The beliefs or practises based on a rigid adherence to some traditional doctrine; extreme conservatism; as, Moslem fundamentalism; the political fundamentalism of the Christian right.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1920 in the religious sense; see fundamentalist + -ism.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context religion English) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts. 2 (context finance English) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of an instrument.
WordNet
n. the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth
Wikipedia
Fundamentalism usually has a religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs. However, fundamentalism has come to apply to a tendency among certain groups—mainly, though not exclusively, in religion—that is characterized by a markedly strict literalism as applied to certain specific scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, and a strong sense of the importance of maintaining ingroup and outgroup distinctions, leading to an emphasis on purity and the desire to return to a previous ideal from which advocates believe members have strayed. Rejection of diversity of opinion as applied to these established "fundamentals" and their accepted interpretation within the group is often the result of this tendency.
Depending upon the context, fundamentalism can be a pejorative rather than neutral characterization, similar to the ways that calling political perspectives "right-wing" or "left-wing" can, for some, have negative connotations.
The term Fundamentalism refers to a variety of religious, political, and ideological philosophies or movements. It may specifically refer to:
Fundamentalism is a monumental bronze sculpture by Jens Galschiot consisting of the letters in the word ' FUNDAMENTALISM'. The sculpture finished in 2015. The sculpture is a part of the dialog project The children of Abraham, which is created by the artist Jens Galschiot.
Usage examples of "fundamentalism".
Shehhi moved in with Atta and Binalshibh, his evolution toward Islamic fundamentalism became more pronounced.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the great ideologues of geopolitics and the theoreticians of the end of history have consistently posed fundamentalisms as the primary danger facing global order and stability.
In the context of Islamic traditions, fundamentalism is postmodern insofar as it rejects the tradition of Islamic modernism for which modernity was always overcoded as assimilation or submission to Euro-American hegemony.
After that Frances had wandered the Middle East and the ructions she caused were a powerful factor in the rise of Muslim fundamentalism.
But in the increasingly spiritistic inclination of physics itself, Behaviorism and Fundamentalism had found a meeting place.
Trial records and documents from the Philippine National Police show that Nichols was in Cebu City at the same time as Yousef in December 1994 - staying in a section of the Visayas island group that was a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism.
This marriage between postmodernism and fundamentalism is certainly an odd coupling considering that postmodernist and fundamentalist discourses stand in most respects in polar opposition: hybridity versus purity, difference versus identity, mobility versus stasis.
But then the Guamanians were more religious and more conservative, and fundamentalism, with its millennial apprehensions, had imbued these last few months with the anticipation and the dread of Judgment Day.
The postmodernity of fundamentalism has to be recognized primarily in its refusal of modernity as a weapon of Euro-American hegemony-and in this regard Islamic fundamentalism is indeed the paradigmatic case.
It was an outfit full of slits and apertures, dynamic evening wear, extremely high-powered, rich in fetish content, and he found himself wishing to see her dressed in this ultraseductive apparel, aware of the irony of his desire, backing into the totally serene confusion of it all, the inverted fundamentalism of maleness allowed its answered prayer.
Much as religious fundamentalism presents only an idealized caricature of the history of its own beliefs, so does scientism present the history of science as a unswerving march toward Truth, in which earlier errors are systematically replaced with facts.
Islamic fundamentalism, which serves as an umbrella for many variants of a number of political ideologies, has in recent years eroded the power of centralized and authoritarian political systems in the Middle East.
Likewise, it is just as crucial to make a comparable fourfold distinction with respect to religious practices, religious philosophies, religious doctrines, and religious fundamentalism, as follows.
Its fundamentalism at once renders suspect several brilliant and subtle generalizations on the differences between Easterners and Westerners noted by a well-known European philosopher after a visit to China.
The slow grinding of two great world powers against each other had nurtured it, had held it in, and after the disintegration of one of them and the rise of fundamentalism in a dozen little countires, Senator Bartlett had come out of nowhere to give it vent.