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.

• 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.

• 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.

• The Religious Right

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

• NATO and the Militarization and Interventions Abroad

  • US officials feared that an Iranian victory would embolden Islamic fundamentalists in the Arab states, perhaps leading to the overthrow of secular governments—and damage to Western corporate interests—in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Kuwait.

• The Iranian Crisis

  • On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students and activists, including Islamic fundamentalists who wished to end the Westernization and secularization of Iran, invaded the American embassy in Tehran and seized 66 embassy employees.

• Foreign Policies

  • The U.S. aid was supplied to Islamic fundamentalists and to the military government of Pakistan, which may have contributed to the subsequent political instability and rise of Islamic theocracy in the region.

• September 11th and the War on Terror

  • On September 20, in an address to a joint session of Congress, Bush declared war on terrorism, blamed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for the attacks, and demanded that the radical Islamic fundamentalists who ruled Afghanistan, the Taliban, turn bin Laden over or face attack by the United States.

• The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • In his address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, President Bush had declared war on terrorism, blamed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for the attacks, and demanded that the radical Islamic fundamentalists who ruled Afghanistan, the Taliban, turn bin Laden over or face attack by the United States.