fundamentalist

Examples of fundamentalist in the following topics:

• Christian Fundamentalism

  • Christian Fundamentalists believed modernist Protestants to be in violation of the Bible's teachings and began a movement that endures today.
  • One important sign of this final, prophesized stage is the rebirth of Israel, support for which has become the centerpiece of Fundamentalist foreign policy.
  • A fifth strand pressed the need for public revivals, a common theme among many Evangelicals who did not become Fundamentalists.
  • Fundamentalist movements were found in most North American Protestant denominations by 1919, with the attack on modernism in theology launched by the Fundamentalists in the Baptist and Presbyterian churches, with Fundamentalism becoming especially controversial among Presbyterians.
  • It became the chief interdenominational, Fundamentalist organization in the 1920s.

• Religion

  • Members of lower classes tend to be affiliated with more fundamentalist religions and sect-like groups.
  • Baptists and members of Protestant fundamentalist sects (which tend to be decentralized and informal) have below average SES.

• World Religions and Religious History

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• The Future of Religion

  • The fundamentalist approach to politics can hurt a democratic system because of fundamentalists' unwillingness to compromise.
  • Religious fundamentalists tend to take the view that 'God said it, so it will have to be this way.'
  • Because anything short of God's will is unacceptable, religious fundamentalists don't allow for a middle ground - which is a vital element of the democratic process.
  • Religion can serve as a justification and can even help motivate the bombers, but not all terrorism is inspired by religion and religious fundamentalists.

• The Revival of Domesticity and Religion

  • Many Evangelicals began to express reservations about being known to the world as fundamentalists.
  • The term neo-evangelicalism was coined in 1947 to identify a distinct movement within self-identified fundamentalist Christianity at the time.
  • The self-identified fundamentalists also cooperated in separating their "neo-Evangelical" opponents from the fundamentalist name, by increasingly seeking to distinguish themselves from the more open group, whom they often characterized derogatorily by "neo-Evangelical" or just Evangelical.
  • The Conservative Baptist Association also emerged in 1947 as part of the continuing Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy within the Northern Baptist Convention.
  • The forming churches were fundamentalist/conservative churches that had remained in cooperation with the Northern Baptist Convention after other churches had left, such as those that formed the General Association of Regular Baptist Churches.

• Religion and Other Social Factors

  • Fundamentalist religions in general - including fundamentalist Islam and fundamentalist Christianity - aim primarily to retain the power of men and subjugate women.
  • Members of lower classes tend to associate with more fundamentalist religions and sect-like groups.
  • "In the United States, Presbyterians and Episcopalians tend to be above average in SES; Methodists and Lutherans about average; and Baptists and members of Protestant fundamentalist sects below average".
  • People in more fundamentalist religious groups tend to have lower levels of educational attainment while people in more liberal religious groups tend to have higher levels of educational attainment.

• Subcultures & Countercultures

  • The woman and children in this photo are members of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (or FLDS), which advocates the practice polygamy, making members part of a countercultural group (polygamy is illegal in the United States).

• The Scopes Trial

  • The trial instigated by the American Civil Liberties Union was mostly for show, but had major implications for the issue of whether modern science could be taught in public schools by pitting the Fundamentalist Christian belief of Creationism against the Theory of Evolution.
  • Of the most widely used books, there is only one listing for Evolution in the index and in the wake of the trial, under pressure from Fundamentalist groups, the entry is offset by Biblical quotations.
  • Though often upheld as a blow for the Fundamentalists, the Monkey Trial victory was not complete.

• Terrorism

  • Discuss the War on Terror campaign against religious fundamentalist groups and individuals who engage in terrorism

• The Religious Right

  • Under this leadership, the new Religious Right combines conservative politics with evangelical and fundamentalist teachings.