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

Helmut Schmidt
Misstraue jedem Politiker, jedem Regierungs- oder Staatschef, der seine Religion zum Instrument macht. Halte Abstand von solchen Politikern, die ihre auf das Jenseits orientierte Religion und ihre diesseitige Politik miteinander vermischen.
Helmut Schmidt, Sechs Reden

Christopher Hitchens
So this is where all the vapid talk about the 'soul' of the universe is actually headed. Once the hard-won principles of reason and science have been discredited, the world will not pass into the hands of credulous herbivores who keep crystals by their sides and swoon over the poems of Khalil Gibran. The 'vacuum' will be invaded instead by determined fundamentalists of every stripe who already know the truth by means of revelation and who actually seek real and serious power in the here and now. ...more
Christopher Hitchens

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