Knowra Religious fundamentalism Religious fundamentalism Religious fundamentalism is a movement that treats foundational religious doctrines as authoritative and demands strict adherence, often amid perceived threats to religious authority.
The Fundamentals : A twelve-volume series of essays published from 1910 to 1915 defending conservative Protestant beliefs. The series gave the movement its name and articulated its early doctrinal program.
Biblical inerrancy : The doctrine that the Bible, in its original writings, contains no error. It supplies a central standard for judging competing interpretations and claims.
Religious conservatism : A preference for preserving established religious doctrines, practices, and institutions. Conservatism can preserve tradition without the movement’s characteristic crisis-driven militancy.
Christian right : A political movement in the United States that organizes conservative Christians around public policy and elections. It shows one way fundamentalist constituencies have pursued political influence.
Religious nationalism : A political ideology that links national identity and political legitimacy to a particular religious tradition. Fundamentalist movements can fuse doctrinal defense with projects of national renewal.
Modernism controversy : A dispute over whether modern historical and scientific methods could revise traditional Christian doctrine. The controversy sharpened fundamentalist opposition to changing biblical interpretation.
Biblical literalism : An approach that reads biblical passages according to their plain or ordinary sense, while recognizing genre differences. Literal readings can make scriptural authority decisive in disputes over science and society.
Evangelicalism : A Protestant tradition emphasizing conversion, the Bible, the cross, and active evangelism. Many fundamentalists are evangelical, but evangelicalism includes broader and less separatist currents.
Islamism : A range of political movements seeking to shape public life according to interpretations of Islam. Some Islamist movements share anti-secular mobilization, though Islamism is not synonymous with fundamentalism.
Culture war : A political conflict over moral values, identity, and the role of social institutions. Fundamentalist campaigns have helped make education and family policy sites of cultural conflict.
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