Religious fundamentalism: Aspects of a comparative framework of understanding
| Autor: | J S Krüger |
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| Jazyk: | afrikánština |
| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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| Zdroj: | Verbum et Ecclesia, Vol 27, Iss 3, Pp 886-908 (2006) |
| ISSN: | 2074-7705 1609-9982 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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