Religious fundamentalism: Aspects of a comparative framework of understanding
Verbum et Ecclesia
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Religious fundamentalism: Aspects of a comparative framework of understanding | |
| Creator | Kr, J S | |
| Description | The article presents the outline of a comparative framework for the understanding of religious fundamentalism. The argument is developed around the interrelated aspects of macro-historical religious context, socio-religious context, and the context of religious tradition as a primary dimension of religion. In those overlapping contexts, the possibility of fundamentalism is explained with refe-rence to pre-disposing, precipitating and perpetuating conditions. In terms of the dimension of religious tradition, fundamentalism is expounded in terms of the following three aspects: education, inter-pretation and identity-definition. Fundamentalism emerges as an awkward mix (not a creative synthesis) of traditional and modernist elements in the present breach - with its peculiar characteristics, crises and threats - between epochs. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2006-09-30 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/ve.v27i3.192 | |
| Source | Verbum et Ecclesia; Vol 27, No 3 (2006); 886-908 2074-7705 1609-9982 | |
| Language | eng | |
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