Crossword clues for fundamentalist
fundamentalist
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fundamentalist \fundamentalist\ fundamentalistic \fundamentalistic\adj.
of or pertaining to fundamentalists or fundamentalism.
characteristic of a fundamentalist; -- especially, resembling the behavior of a fundamentalist; as, a fundamentalist dislike of new ideas.
fundamentalist \fundamentalist\ n. a supporter of fundamentalism.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1920 in the religious sense, from fundamental + -ist. Coined in American English to name a movement among Protestants c.1920-25 based on scriptural inerrancy, etc., and associated with William Jennings Bryan, among others. The original notion might have been of "fundamental truths."\n\nFundamentalism is a protest against that rationalistic interpretation of Christianity which seeks to discredit supernaturalism. This rationalism, when full grown, scorns the miracles of the Old Testament, sets aside the virgin birth of our Lord as a thing unbelievable, laughs at the credulity of those who accept many of the New Testament miracles, reduces the resurrection of our Lord to the fact that death did not end his existence, and sweeps away the promises of his second coming as an idle dream. It matters not by what name these modernists are known. The simple fact is that, in robbing Christianity of its supernatural content, they are undermining the very foundations of our holy religion. They boast that they are strengthening the foundations and making Christianity more rational and more acceptable to thoughtful people. Christianity is rooted and grounded in supernaturalism, and when robbed of supernaturalism it ceases to be a religion and becomes an exalted system of ethics.
[Curtis Lee Laws, "Herald & Presbyter," July 19, 1922]
\nFundamentalist is said (by George McCready Price) to have been first used in print by Curtis Lee Laws (1868-1946), editor of "The Watchman Examiner," a Baptist newspaper. The movement may have roots in the Presbyterian General Assembly of 1910, which drew up a list of five defining qualities of "true believers" which other evangelicals published in a mass-circulation series of books called "The Fundamentals." A World's Christian Fundamentals Association was founded in 1918. The words reached widespread use in the wake of the contentious Northern Baptist Convention of 1922 in Indianapolis. In denominational use, fundamentalist was opposed to modernist. Applied to other religions since 1956 (earliest extension is to the Muslim Brotherhood).\n\nA new word has been coined into our vocabulary -- two new words -- 'Fundamentalist' and 'Fundamentalism.' They are not in the dictionaries as yet -- unless in the very latest editions. But they are on everyone's tongue.[Address Delivered at the Opening of the Seminary, Sept. 20, 1922, by Professor Harry Lathrop Reed, "Auburn Seminary Record"]
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who reduces religion to strict interpretation of core or original texts. 2 (context finance English) A trader who trades on the financial fundamentals of the companies involved, as opposed to a chartist or technician. 3 (''Christian'') Originally referred to an adherent of an American Christian movement that began as a response to the rejection of the accuracy of the Bible, the alleged deity of Christ, Christ's atonement for humanity, the virgin birth, and miracles. These points were first listed in a book series entitled "The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth" published in 1909 and affirmed by the PCUSA in its 1910 Minutes of the General Assembly. 4 (context pejorative English) A fundamentalist Christian (also ''fundie'' or ''fundy'')
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or tending toward fundamentalism [syn: fundamentalistic]
n. a supporter of fundamentalism
Wikipedia
Fundamentalist is a studio album by Russell Morris released in May 2007. It captures a collection of material performed solo/acoustic by Russell Morris, including his two no.1 singles, " The Real Thing" and " Part Three into Paper Walls". As of 2013, the album has sold around 8,000 copies in Australia.
Usage examples of "fundamentalist".
Assad took power, the Muslim Brotherhood, a loosely knit underground coalition of Sunni Muslim fundamentalist guerrilla groups, which had existed on and off in Syria since the late 1930s, began working to topple the predominantly Alawite Assad regime through a ruthless campaign of assassinations and bombings.
A group of fundamentalist fighters back from a three-day patrol, their long shirts and long beards and fur-lined vests caked with dust, could be seen filing up the road, Kalashnikovs casually perched on their shoulders.
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.
Simplifying a great deal, one could argue that postmodernist discourses appeal primarily to the winners in the processes of globalization and fundamentalist discourses to the losers.
Palestinian Christians suspected Palestinian Muslims, Muslim fundamentalists suspected Communists, pro-Jordanians suspected pro-PLOniks, Hebronites suspected Jerusalemites, the members of one extended family in a village refused to cooperate with those of another.
Unlike Tom and the KDT and the fundamentalists, I have known Christopher Goodman almost all of his life, and he has never once told me a lie or done anything that was in the least bit self-serving.
William Sargant, an eminent English neuropsychiatrist, has pointed out the similarity of the techniques used in brainwashing with the results obtained by Methodist and Fundamentalist revivalism in the past and present, by snake-handling cults in the southern United States, by voodoo ceremonies in Haiti, and by ecstatic religious rituals celebrated all over the world.
Fundamentalist religiosity has become an integral part of the radicalization of the Right in the United States and of the tendency to demonize political opponents as traitors and enemies of God and America.
Muslim fundamentalists from the militant Wahhabi sect, and all were young men the Saudi Intelligence Services currently had under surveillance.
Thus, if the parents are freethinkers, the children may well abandon thought altogether and become fundamentalists.
The search for imaginary Jeffersonian democrats ends up as a search for enemies, and the Islamic fundamentalists are the latest candidates.
However, both Jewish and Christian fundamentalists get the vague notion that the Canaanites were two hundred feet tall, so that ordinary human beings were as grasshoppers in comparison.
The infliction of literalism on us by fundamentalists who read the Bible without seeing anything but words is one of the great tragedies of history.
Why was it resolutely supported by conservatives, monarchists and religious fundamentalists?
But in parallel to the many scientists who seem reluctant to debate or even publicly discuss pseudo-science, many proponents of mainstream religions are reluctant to take on extreme conservatives and fundamentalists.