Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism usually has a religious connotation that indicates unwavering attachment to a set of irreducible beliefs. However, fundamentalism has come to be applied to a tendency among certain groups–mainly, although not exclusively, in religion–that is characterized by a markedly strict literalism as it is applied to certain specific scriptures, dogmas, or ideologies, and a strong sense of the importance of maintaining ingroup and outgroup distinctions, leading to an emphasis on purity and the desire to return to a previous ideal from which advocates believe members have strayed. Rejection ...more

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Educated
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Battle for God
Escape
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
Letter to a Christian Nation
The Handmaid's Tale
Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity
The Sound of Gravel
Fundamentalism and American Culture (New Edition)
Breaking Free
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamist Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

Brian K. Vaughan
Anyone who thinks one book has all the answers hasn't read enough books. ...more
Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 6

Christopher Hitchens
How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape.
Christopher Hitchens

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