fundamentalism
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- noun
- /ˌfʌndəˈmɛntəlɪzəm/
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fundamentalismo protestante
- Some years ago, PBS aired three documentaries on fundamentalism in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, highlighting their glaring similarities.
- Christian fundamentalism
- Protestant fundamentalism
- American fundamentalism
How do you account for the rise of Christian fundamentalism, especially in the USA?
- How do you account for the rise of Christian fundamentalism, especially in the USA?
- There's a sort of resurgence in Christian fundamentalism, blaming everybody else for the the problems that are occurring.
Examples
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So it just makes me wonder about what is going on with Christian fundamentalism there.
Blog text (13) -
There is, however, considerable research describing the effects of Christian fundamentalism on personality and lifestyle.
Academic text (1997) -
Your concern is Christian fundamentalism, a subject of little interest to me.
Blog text (27) -
How do you account for the rise of Christian fundamentalism, especially in the USA?
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If this is fundamentalism, then CAC is a fundamentalist church.
Academic text (2018) -
As an elder of that church, he practiced a mixture of Scottish Calvinism and American fundamentalism.
Fiction book (1990) -
There's a sort of resurgence in Christian fundamentalism, blaming everybody else for the the problems that are occurring.
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At the same time, Christian fundamentalism is increasingly challenged by fundamentalists of other religions, including those of Shia and Sunni Islam.
Academic text (1996) -
How do you account for the rise of Christian fundamentalism, especially in the USA?
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There is, however, considerable research describing the effects of Christian fundamentalism on personality and lifestyle.
Synonyms
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Strong religious ideas that follow a holy book exactly and refuse modern changes
Very strict Christian beliefs with active efforts to make others believe the same
Compounds
- Literature
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Belief that markets without government rules best solve economic and social problems
How Literal
Surface Forms
Morphology
fundamentalism = fundamental (transparent) = fundament + al + ism
Although historically tied to a specific early-20th-century Protestant movement, the form is still a regular derivation: 'fundamental' + '-ism' denotes a movement or doctrine based on fundamentals.
Etymology
Fundamentalism comes from fundamental, from foundation meaning 'base' or 'starting point', and the ending -ism meaning 'belief' or 'system'. In the early 1900s it named a Protestant movement that insisted people read the Bible 'exactly as written', so today fundamentalism often means a strict, literal form of religious belief.