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{{Short description|Unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs}}{{other uses}}{{use mdy dates|date=November 2013}}{{Philosophy of religion sidebar}}{{History of religion}}Fundamentalism is a tendency among certain groups and individuals that is characterized by the application of a strict literal interpretation to scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, along with a strong belief in the importance of distinguishing one's ingroup and outgroup,JOURNAL, Altemeyer, B., Hunsberger, B., 1992, Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism, quest, and prejudice, International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 2, 2, 113–133, 10.1207/s15327582ijpr0202_5, JOURNAL, Kunst, Jonas R., Thomsen, Lotte, Sam, David L., Late Abrahamic reunion? Religious fundamentalism negatively predicts dual Abrahamic group categorization among Muslims and Christians: Late Abrahamic reunion, European Journal of Social Psychology,weblink June 2014, 44, 4, 337–348, 10.1002/ejsp.2014, JOURNAL, Kunst, J. R., Thomsen, L., 2014, Prodigal sons: Dual Abrahamic categorization mediates the detrimental effects of religious fundamentalism on Christian-Muslim relations, The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 25, 4, 293–306, 10.1080/10508619.2014.937965, 10852/43723, 53625066,weblink free, JOURNAL, Hunsberger, B, 1995, Religion and prejudice: The role of religious fundamentalism, quest, and right-wing authoritarianism, Journal of Social Issues, 51, 2, 113–129, 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1995.tb01326.x, ... the fundamentalism and quest relationships with prejudice are especially meaningful in light of an association with right‐wing authoritarianism. ... In the end, it would seem that it is not religion per se, but rather the ways in which individuals hold their religious beliefs, which are associated with prejudice., which leads to an emphasis on some conception of "purity", and a desire to return to a previous ideal from which advocates believe members have strayed. The term is usually used in the context of religion to indicate an unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs (the "fundamentals").JOURNAL, Beyond Theology: Toward an Anthropology of "Fundamentalism", American Anthropologist, Jun 2001, Judith, Nagata, 103, 2, 10.1525/aa.2001.103.2.481, 481–498, Once considered exclusively a matter of religion, theology, or scriptural correctness, use of the term fundamentalism has recently undergone metaphorical expansion into other domains [...]., The term "fundamentalism" is generally regarded by scholars of religion as referring to a largely modern religious phenomenon which, while itself a reinterpretation of religion as defined by the parameters of modernism, reifies religion in reaction against modernist, secularist, liberal and ecumenical tendencies developing in religion and society in general that it perceives to be foreign to a particular religious tradition.JOURNAL, Armstrong, Karen, 2004, Fundamentalism and the Secular Society,weblink International Journal, 59, 4, 875–877, 10.2307/40203988, 40203988, Depending upon the context, the label "fundamentalism" can be a pejorative rather than a neutral characterization, similar to the ways that calling political perspectives "right-wing" or "left-wing" can have negative connotations.BOOK, Harris, Harriet, Fundamentalism and Evangelicals, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008, 978-0-19-953253-7, 182663241, ENCYCLOPEDIA, Roland, Boer, Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg, Meaghan Morris, Raymond Williams, Fundamentalism, New keywords: a revised vocabulary of culture and society, Blackwell Publishing, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005, 134–137, 978-0-631-22568-3, 230674627,weblink July 27, 2008, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080910055945weblink">weblink September 10, 2008, mdy-all, Widely used as a pejorative term to designate one's fanatical opponents – usually religious and/or political – rather than oneself, fundamentalism began in Christian Protestant circles in the eC20. Originally restricted to debates within evangelical ('gospel-based') Protestantism, it is now employed to refer to any person or group that is characterized as unbending, rigorous, intolerant, and militant. The term has two usages, the prior one a positive self-description, which then developed into the later derogatory usage that is now widespread.,

Religious fundamentalism

Buddhism

{{See also|Buddhism and violence}}Buddhist fundamentalism has targeted other religious and ethnic groups, as in Myanmar. A Buddhist-dominated country, Myanmar has seen tensions between Muslim minorities and the Buddhist majority, especially during the 2013 Burma anti-Muslim riots (possibly instigated by hardline groups such as the 969 Movement).WEB,weblink March 30, 2013, KYAW ZWA MOE, Root Out the Source of Meikhtila Unrest, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130827232539weblink">weblink August 27, 2013, November 4, 2013, as well as during actions which are associated with the Rohingya genocide (2016 onwards).Buddhist fundamentalism also features in Sri Lanka. Buddhist-dominated Sri Lanka has seen recent tensions between Muslim minorities and the Buddhist majority, especially during the 2014 anti-Muslim riots in Sri LankaNEWS,weblink Fear, shock among Sri Lankan Muslims in aftermath of Buddhist mob violence, Iqbal, Athas, Tim, Hume, June 24, 2014, CNN, January 23, 2020, and in the course of the 2018 anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka,NEWS,weblink Sri Lanka struggles to halt days of Buddhist riots

work= BBC News, January 23, 2020, allegedly instigated by hardline groups such as the Bodu Bala Sena.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} Historic and contemporary examples of Buddhist fundamentalism occur in each of the three main branches of Buddhism: Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. In addition to the above examples of fundamentalism in Theravada-dominated societies, the reification of a protector deity, Dorje Shugden, by 19th-century Tibetan lama Pabongkhapa could be seen as an example of fundamentalism in the Vajrayana tradition. Dorje Shugden was a key tool in Pabongkhapa's persecution of the flourishing Rimé movement, an ecumenical movement which fused the teachings of the Sakya, Kagyu and Nyingma,{{sfn|Schaik|2011|p=165-169}} in response to the dominance of the Gelug school. While Pabongkhapa had an initially inclusive view early in his life, he received a number of signs that he had displeased Dorje Shugden by receiving teachings from non-Gelug schools, and thus initiated a revival movement that opposed the mixing of non-Gelug practices by Gelug practitioners.{{sfn|Kay|2004|p=47}} The main function of the deity was presented as "the protection of the Ge-luk tradition through violent means, even including the killing of its enemies." Crucially, however, these "‘enemies’ of the Gelug refers less to the members of rivalschools than to members of the Gelug tradition ‘who mix Dzong-ka-ba’s tradition with elements coming from other traditions, particularly the Nying-maDzok-chen’."{{sfn|Kay|2004|p=47}} In Japan, a prominent example has been the practice among some members of the Mahayana Nichiren sect of shakubuku – a method of proselytizing which involves the strident condemnation of other sects as deficient or evil. Christianity George Marsden has defined Christian fundamentalism as the demand for strict adherence to certain theological doctrines, in opposition to Modernist theology.{{asof|2023}}, Marsden's work has been cited over 3600 times, according to WEB, Google Scholar,weblink

website=scholar.google.com, Its supporters originally coined the term in order to describe what they claimed were five specific classic theological beliefs of Christianity, and the coinage of the term led to the development of a Christian fundamentalist movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century.JOHN > LAST= BUESCHER, A History of Fundamentalism,weblinkweblink 14 July 2010

website=teachinghistory.org, Fundamentalism as a movement arose in the United States, starting among conservative Presbyterian theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary in the late 19th century. It soon spread to conservatives among the Baptists and other denominations around 1910 to 1920. The movement's purpose was to reaffirm key theological tenets and defend them against the challenges of liberal theology and higher criticism.Mark A. Noll, A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992) pp 376-86The concept of "fundamentalism" has roots in the Niagara Bible Conferences which were held annually between 1878 and 1897. During those conferences, the tenets widely considered to be fundamental Christian belief were identified."Fundamentalism" was prefigured by (The Fundamentals|The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth), a collection of twelve pamphlets published between 1910 and 1915 by brothers Milton and Lyman Stewart. It is widely considered to be the foundation of modern Christian fundamentalism.In 1910, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church identified what became known as the five fundamentals:George M. Marsden, "Fundamentalism and American Culture", (1980) p. 117 Biblical inspiration and the infallibility of scripture as a result of this Virgin birth of Jesus Belief that Christ's death was the atonement for sin Bodily resurrection of Jesus Historical reality of the miracles of Jesus In 1920, the word "fundamentalist" was first used in print by Curtis Lee Laws, editor of The Watchman Examiner, a Baptist newspaper.WEB, fundamentalist (adj.),weblink Etymonline, Online Etymology Dictionary, January 29, 2021, Laws proposed that those Christians who were fighting for the fundamentals of the faith should be called "fundamentalists".Curtis Lee Laws, "Convention Side Lights," The Watchman-Examiner, 8, no. 27 (1 July 1920), p 834.Theological conservatives who rallied around the five fundamentals came to be known as "fundamentalists". They rejected the existence of commonalities with theologically related religious traditions, such as the grouping of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism into one Abrahamic family of religions. By contrast, while Evangelical groups (such as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association) typically agree with the "fundamentals" as they are expressed in The Fundamentals, they are often willing to participate in events with religious groups that do not hold to the "essential" doctrines.Carpenter, Revive us Again (1997) p 200 Hinduism {{See also|Hindutva}}The existence of fundamentalism in Hinduism is a complex and contradictory phenomenon. While some would argue that certain aspects of Gaudiya Vaishnavism manifest fundamentalist tendencies, these tendencies are more clearly displayed in Hindutva, the predominant form of Hindu nationalism in India today, and an increasingly powerful and influential voice within the religion. Hinduism includes a diversity of ideas on spirituality and traditions, but has no ecclesiastical order, no unquestionable religious authorities, no governing body, no prophet(s) nor any binding holy book; Hindus can choose to be polytheistic, pantheistic, panentheistic, pandeistic, henotheistic, monotheistic, monistic, agnostic, atheistic or humanist.Lipner 2009, p. 8 quote: "... one need not be religious in the minimal sense described to be accepted as a Hindu by Hindus, or describe oneself perfectly validly as Hindu. One may be polytheistic or monotheistic, monistic or pantheistic,henotheistic, panentheistic, pandeistic, even an agnostic, humanist or atheist, and still be considered a Hindu."BOOK, Kurtz, Lester R., Encyclopedia of violence, peace, & conflict, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2008, 978-1-84972-393-0, 436849045, MK Gandhi, The Essence of Hinduism Archived 24 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Editor: VB Kher, Navajivan Publishing, see page 3; According to Gandhi, "a man may not believe in God and still call himself a Hindu." According to Doniger, "ideas about all the major issues of faith and lifestyle – vegetarianism, nonviolence, belief in rebirth, even caste – are subjects of debate, not dogma."Doniger 2014, p. 3.Some would argue that, because of the wide range of traditions and ideas covered by the term Hinduism, a lack of theological 'fundamentals' means that a dogmatic 'religious fundamentalism' per se is hard to find.{{Citation|title=Hinduism not a religion, there's no book, no papacy: Sadhguru|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRxmg213lBc|language=en|access-date=2021-12-04}} Others point to the recent rise of Hindu nationalism in India as evidence to the contrary. The religion "defies our desire to define and categorize it." In India, the term “dharma” is preferred, which is broader than the Western term “religion.”Sharma 2003, pp. 12–13.Hence, certain scholars argue that Hinduism lacks dogma and thus a specific notion of "fundamentalism," while other scholars identify several politically active Hindu movements as part of a "Hindu fundamentalist family."WEB, On the Difference Between Hinduism and Hindutva,weblink 2021-12-04, Association for Asian Studies, en-US, BOOK, Brekke, Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization,weblink 1991, Cambridge University Press, 127, 9781139504294, Islam Fundamentalism within Islam goes back to the early history of Islam in the 7th century, to the time of the Kharijites.BOOK, Poljarevic, Emin, 2021, Theology of Violence-oriented Takfirism as a Political Theory: The Case of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Cusack, Carole M., Carole M. Cusack, Upal, Muhammad Afzal, Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements, Leiden and Boston, Brill Publishers, Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion, 21, 10.1163/9789004435544_026, free, 978-90-04-43554-4, 1874-6691, 485–512, From their essentially political position, they developed extreme doctrines that set them apart from both mainstream Shia and Sunni Muslims. The Kharijites were particularly noted for adopting a radical approach to takfir, whereby they declared other Muslims to be unbelievers and therefore deemed them worthy of death.NEWS,weblink Another battle with Islam's 'true believers', The Globe and Mail, WEB,weblink Imam Mohamad Jebara: Fruits of the tree of extremism, Mohamad Jebara More Mohamad Jebara, Ottawa Citizen, February 6, 2015, WEB, Dr. Usama Hasan, 2012,weblink The Balance of in challenging extremism, 2015-11-17, dead, Quilliam Foundation,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140802045255weblink">weblink August 2, 2014, mdy, The Shia and Sunni religious conflicts since the 7th century created an opening for radical ideologues, such as Ali Shariati (1933–77), to merge social revolution with Islamic fundamentalism, as exemplified by the Iranian Revolution in 1979.JOURNAL, Griffith, William E., 1979, The Revival of Islamic Fundamentalism: The Case of Iran,weblink International Security, 4, 1, 132–138, 10.2307/2626789, 2626789, 154146522, 0162-2889, Islamic fundamentalism has appeared in many countries;Lawrence Davidson, Islamic Fundamentalism (Greenwood, 2003) the Salafi-Wahhabi version is promoted worldwide and financed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Pakistan.WEB, Terrorism: Growing Wahhabi Influence in the United States,weblink 26 June 2003, www.govinfo.gov, Washington, D.C., United States Government Publishing Office,weblink 15 December 2018, live, 26 June 2021, Nearly 22 months have passed since the atrocity of September 11 attacks, September 11th. Since then, many questions have been asked about the role in that day's terrible events and in other challenges we face in the War on terror, war against terror of Saudi Arabia and its official sect, a separatist, exclusionary and violent form of Islam known as Wahhabism. It is widely recognized that all of the Hijackers in the September 11 attacks, 19 suicide pilots were Wahhabi followers. In addition, 15 of the 19 were Saudi subjects. Journalists and experts, as well as spokespeople of the world, have said that Wahhabism is the source of the List of terrorist incidents, overwhelming majority of terrorist atrocities in today's world, from Morocco to Indonesia, via Israel, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya. In addition, Saudi media sources have identified Wahhabi agents from Saudi Arabia as being responsible for terrorist attacks on U.S. Invasion of Iraq, U.S. troops in Iraq. The Washington Post has confirmed Wahhabi involvement in attacks against U.S. forces in Fallujah during the Iraq War, Fallujah. To examine the role of Wahhabism and terrorism is not to label all Muslims as extremists. Indeed, I want to make this point very, very clear. It is the exact opposite. Analyzing Wahhabism means identifying the extreme element that, although enjoying immense political and financial resources, thanks to support by a sector of the Saudi state, seeks to globally hijack Islam ... The problem we are looking at today is the State-sponsored doctrine and funding of an extremist ideology that provides the recruiting grounds, support infrastructure and monetary life blood of today's international terrorists. The extremist ideology is Wahhabism, a major force behind terrorist groups, like al Qaeda, a group that, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, and I am quoting, is the 'number one terrorist threat to the U.S. today'., BOOK, DeLong-Bas, Natana J., Natana J. DeLong-Bas, 2004, Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad,weblink New York City, New York, Oxford University Press, 0195169913, MAGAZINE, Armstrong, Karen, Karen Armstrong, 27 November 2014, Wahhabism to ISIS: how Saudi Arabia exported the main source of global terrorism,weblink London, New Statesman,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20141127132619weblink">weblink 27 November 2014, live, 28 June 2021, NEWS, Crooke, Alastair, Alastair Crooke, First published 27 August 2014, 30 March 2017, You Can't Understand ISIS If You Don't Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia,weblink New York City, New York, The Huffington Post,weblink 28 August 2014, live, 28 June 2021, NEWS, Sells, Michael, 22 December 2016, Wahhabist Ideology: What It Is And Why It's A Problem,weblink New York City, New York, The Huffington Post,weblink 8 April 2020, live, 28 June 2021, WEB, Lindijer, Koert, How Islam from the north spreads once more into the Sahel,weblink The Africanists, 24 November 2014, 24 August 2013, Hundreds of years later, Islam again comes to the Sahel, this time with an unstoppable mission mentality and the way paved by money from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Pakistan. Foreigners, and also Malians who received scholarships to study in Saudi Arabia, introduce this strict form of Islam, and condemn the sufi's{{sic, .}}{{verify source|date = November 2014}}The Iran hostage crisis of 1979–80 marked a major turning point in the use of the term "fundamentalism". The media, in an attempt to explain the ideology of Ayatollah Khomeini and the Iranian Revolution to a Western audience described it as a "fundamentalist version of Islam" by way of analogy to the Christian fundamentalist movement in the U.S. Thus was born the term Islamic fundamentalist, which became a common use of the term in following years.WEB,weblink Google News Search: Chart shows spikes in '79 (Iran hostage crisis), after 9/11 and in '92 and '93 (Algerian elections, PLO)., December 9, 2008, {{original research inline|date = November 2014}} Judaism Jewish fundamentalism has been used to characterize militant religious Zionism, and both Ashkenazi and Sephardic versions of Haredi Judaism.WEB,weblink fundamentalism - religious movement, britannica.com, October 22, 2017, Ian S. Lustik has characterized "Jewish fundamentalism" as "an ultranationalist, eschatologically based, irredentist ideology".JOURNAL,weblink Ian S. Lustik, Israel's Dangerous Fundamentalists, Foreign Policy, 68, Fall 1987, 118–139, 0015-7228, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20091021171748weblink">weblink October 21, 2009, November 4, 2013, mdy-all, New Atheism The term New Atheism describes the positions of some atheist academics, writers, scientists, and philosophers of the 20th and 21st centuries.BOOK, Lee, Lois,weblink A Dictionary of Atheism, Bullivant, Stephen, 2016-11-17, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-252013-5, en, 12 March 2017, 20 January 2023,weblink live, MAGAZINE, Wolf, Gary, November 1, 2006, The Church of the Non-Believers, en-US, Wired,weblink 2023-01-19, 1059-1028, 21 July 2017,weblink live, Critics have described New Atheism as "secular fundamentalism".BOOK, Hedges, Chris, When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists, 2008, Free Press, 978-1-4165-7078-3,weblink JOURNAL, McAnulla, Stuart, Secular fundamentalists? Characterising the new atheist approach to secularism, religion and politics, British Politics, 9, 124–145, 2011, 2, Palgrave Macmillan, 10.1057/bp.2013.27,weblink BOOK, LeDrew, Stephen, Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society, Scientism and Utopia: New Atheism as a Fundamentalist Reaction to Relativism, 2018, 143–155, Springer, 10.1007/978-3-319-96559-8_9, 978-3-319-96558-1,weblink BOOK, Stahl, William, Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical Appraisal, One-Dimensional Rage: The Social Epistemology Of The New Atheism And Fundamentalism, 2010, 95–108, Brill, 978-90-04-19053-5,weblink Politics {{Conservatism sidebar}}In modern politics, fundamentalism has been associated with right-wing conservative ideology, especially social conservatism. Social conservatives often support policies in line with religious fundamentalism, such as support for school prayer and opposition to LGBT rights and abortion.BOOK, Martin, William, 1996, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America,weblink New York, Broadway Books, 978-0-553-06745-3, Conversely, secularism has been associated with left-wing or liberal ideology, as it takes the opposite stance to said policies.Political usage of the term "fundamentalism" has been criticized. It has been used by political groups to berate opponents, using the term flexibly depending on their political interests. According to Judith Nagata, a professor of Asia Research Institute in the National University of Singapore, "The Afghan mujahiddin, locked in combat with the Soviet enemy in the 1980s, could be praised as 'freedom fighters' by their American backers at the time, while the present Taliban, viewed, among other things, as protectors of American enemy Osama bin Laden, are unequivocally 'fundamentalist'."Nagata, Judith. 2001. Toward an Anthropology of "Fundamentalism." Toronto: Blackwell Publishing, p.9."Fundamentalist" has been used pejoratively to refer to philosophies perceived as literal-minded or carrying a pretense of being the sole source of objective truth, regardless of whether it is usually called a religion. For instance, the Archbishop of Wales has criticized "atheistic fundamentalism" broadlyAlister McGrath and Joanna Collicutt McGrath, The Dawkins Delusion? Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK), February 15, 2007, {{ISBN|978-0-281-05927-0}}WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20080316070109weblink">weblink dead, Yr Eglwys yng Nghymru | The Church in Wales, March 16, 2008, December 30, 2007, NEWS,weblink BBC News, 'Atheistic fundamentalism' fears, December 22, 2007, May 3, 2010, and said "Any kind of fundamentalism, be it Biblical, atheistic or Islamic, is dangerous".WEB,weblink Archbishop of Wales fears the rise of "Atheistic Fundamentalism", dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071227061935weblink">weblink December 27, 2007, November 4, 2013, mdy-all, He also said, "the new fundamentalism of our age ... leads to the language of expulsion and exclusivity, of extremism and polarisation, and the claim that, because God is on our side, he is not on yours."NEWS,weblink Atheistic fundamentalism" fears, BBC News, 22 December 2007, November 4, 2013, He claimed it led to situations such as councils calling Christmas "Winterval", schools refusing to put on nativity plays and crosses being removed from chapels. Others have countered that some of these attacks on Christmas are urban legends, not all schools do nativity plays because they choose to perform other traditional plays like A Christmas Carol or "The Snow Queen" and, because of rising tensions between various religions, opening up public spaces to alternate displays rather than the Nativity scene is an attempt to keep government religion-neutral.NEWS,weblink The Guardian, London, Sorry to disappoint, but it's nonsense to suggest we want to ban Christmas, Polly, Toynbee, December 21, 2007, May 3, 2010, In The New Inquisition, Robert Anton Wilson lampoons the members of skeptical organizations such as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal as fundamentalist materialists, alleging that they dogmatically dismiss any evidence that conflicts with materialism as hallucination or fraud.Pope Robert Anton Wilson, The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science. 1986. 240 pages. {{ISBN|1-56184-002-5}}In France, during a protestation march against the imposition of restrictions on the wearing of headscarves in state-run schools, a banner labeled the ban as "secular fundamentalism"."Secular fundamentalism", International Herald Tribune, December 19, 2003NEWS, 2004-01-17, Headscarf ban sparks new protests, en-GB,weblink BBC News, 2023-01-02, In the United States, private or cultural intolerance of women wearing the hijab (Islamic headcovering) and political activism by Muslims also has been labeled "secular fundamentalism".AYESHA> LAST = AHMAD, 22 April 2002

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last=Ahmad, Minaret of Feedom, The term "fundamentalism" is sometimes applied to signify a counter-cultural fidelity to a principle or set of principles, as in the pejorative term "market fundamentalism", used to imply exaggerated religious-like faith in the ability of unfettered laissez-faire or free-market capitalist economic views or policies to solve economic and social problems. According to economist John Quiggin, the standard features of "economic fundamentalist rhetoric" are "dogmatic" assertions and the claim that anyone who holds contrary views is not a real economist. Retired professor in religious studies Roderick Hindery lists positive qualities attributed to political, economic, or other forms of cultural fundamentalism, including "vitality, enthusiasm, willingness to back up words with actions, and the avoidance of facile compromise" as well as negative aspects such as psychological attitudes,{{which|date = November 2014}} occasionally elitist and pessimistic perspectives, and in some cases literalism.Hindery, Roderick (2008). "Comparative Ethics, Ideologies, and Critical Thought" {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128013058weblink |date=January 28, 2012 }} Criticism A criticism by Elliot N. Dorff:In order to carry out the fundamentalist program in practice, one would need a perfect understanding of the ancient language of the original text, if indeed the true text can be discerned from among variants. Furthermore, human beings are the ones who transmit this understanding between generations. Even if one wanted to follow the literal word of God, the need for people first to understand that word necessitates human interpretation. Through that process human fallibility is inextricably mixed into the very meaning of the divine word. As a result, it is impossible to follow the indisputable word of God; one can only achieve a human understanding of God's will.Dorff, Elliot N. and Rosett, Arthur, A Living Tree; The Roots and Growth of Jewish Law, SUNY Press, 1988.Howard Thurman was interviewed in the late 1970s for a BBC feature on religion. He told the interviewer:{{blockquote|I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense out of experience, to reduce the conglomerates of experience to units of comprehension which we call principles, or ideologies, or concepts. Religious experience is dynamic, fluid, effervescent, yeasty. But the mind can't handle these so it has to imprison religious experience in some way, get it bottled up. Then, when the experience quiets down, the mind draws a bead on it and extracts concepts, notions, dogmas, so that religious experience can make sense to the mind. Meanwhile, religious experience goes on experiencing, so that by the time I get my dogma stated so that I can think about it, the religious experience becomes an object of thought.MAGAZINE ,weblink , An Interview With Howard Thurman and Ronald Eyre , Theology Today , 38 , 2 , July 1981 , dead ,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20020906162337weblink">weblink , 6 September 2002 , BBC , The Long Search , Princeton Theological Seminary , August 26, 2008 , }} Influential criticisms of fundamentalism include James Barr's books on Christian fundamentalism and Bassam Tibi's analysis of Islamic fundamentalism.{{citation needed|date=January 2020}}BOOK, Tibi, Bassam, The Challenge of Fundamentalism: Political Islam and the New World Disorder, University of California Press, 2002, 978-0520236905, A study at the University of Edinburgh found that of its six measured dimensions of religiosity, "lower intelligence is most associated with higher levels of fundamentalism."WEB, The relationship between intelligence and multiple domains of religious belief: Evidence from a large adult US sample, Gary J. Lewis, Stuart J. Ritchie, Timothy C. Bates,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130421071042weblink">weblink 2013-04-21, live, 2011-09-03, Use as a label The Associated Press' AP Stylebook recommends that the term fundamentalist not be used for any group that does not apply the term to itself. Many scholars have adopted a similar position."Can anyone define 'fundamentalist'?", Terry Mattingly, Ventura County Star, May 12, 2011. Retrieved August 6, 2011. Other scholars, however, use the term in the broader descriptive sense to refer to various groups in various religious traditions including those groups that would object to being classified as fundamentalists, such as in the Fundamentalism Project.See, for example, Marty, M. and Appleby, R.S. eds. (1993). Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance. John H. Garvey, Timur Kuran, and David C. Rapoport, associate editors, Vol 3, The Fundamentalism Project. University of Chicago Press.Tex Sample asserts that it is a mistake to refer to a Muslim, Jewish, or Christian fundamentalist. Rather, a fundamentalist's fundamentalism is their primary concern, over and above other denominational or faith considerations.Tex Sample. Public Lecture, Faith and Reason Conference, San Antonio, TX. 2006. See also {{div col|colwidth=20em}} Authoritarianism Biblical literalism Christian identity Christian Reconstructionism Christian nationalism Creation science Cult Dogmatism Dominionism Evangelical atheism Evangelicalism Extremism Formalism (philosophy) Fundamentalism (sculpture) Historical-grammatical method Independent Fundamental Baptist Indoctrination Integrism Islamic extremism Islamic State Islamism Legalism (theology) Militant atheism Moral absolutism Mormon fundamentalism Pentecostalism Political radicalism Reactionary Religious discrimination Religious fanaticism Religious intolerance Religious nationalism Religious persecution Religious segregation Religious violence Restorationism Ritualism in the Church of England Sect Sectarianism True Orthodox church {{div col end}} References {{reflist}} Sources Appleby, R. Scott, Gabriel Abraham Almond, and Emmanuel Sivan (2003). Strong Religion. 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