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Religious Fundamentalism in the Modern World, 2001.
Describes religious fundamentalism in the United States and Islam. Brings focus to radicals in Afghanistan.
2,625 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 6 sources, $ 79.95
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Paper about religious fundamentalism and the liberal modern world. Compares Christian fundamentalism in the United States, with Islamic fundamentalism. Also discusses radical fundamentalism with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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"Fundamentalism is a religious phenomenon that has taken 20th century politics by storm. As defined by Webster?s English dictionary fundamentalism has a direct correlation with Protestant Christianity; however, it has in the past, and is currently, impacting many other forms of religion. Since the 1970?s many religious movements have emerged into political governments and ideologies all over the world. The dominating religion in Europe is Catholicism; Hinduism is very strong in eastern Asia; Judaism is the ranking religion in Israel and Israeli?s political decision; and finally, Islam is the principal religion in the Middle East. Islam is the second largest religion in the world, second only to Christianity which is the main religion in the United States and is actually making a strong comeback in America."
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Swatos' "Globalization and Religious Fundamentalism", 2000.
This paper is a review of Swatos' "Globalization and Religious Fundamentalism" that presents the case that there has been a strong movement to incorporate religion in a globalized manner that gives fundamentalists a foothold in the world's institutions.
1,015 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper states that Swatos? book reviews the global resurgence of religion, which has distorted traditional religious interpretation and boundaries. The author believes that religion has been employed in areas, such as politics, where it is not acceptable. The paper explains the book explores various religious movements commonalities to understand the attraction that enables the entrance into unreachable associations.
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"From Jerry Falwell to the Moral Majority to various presidential scandals, the author notes how religion has been implicated in situations it would have never been just a quarter of a century ago. There has been a strong movement to incorporate religion in such a globalized manner that it infiltrates the very furthest crevices of humanity; in doing so, fundamentalists hope to gain a substantial foothold in the world's community as a means by which to push its beliefs."
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Religious Fundamentalism, 2005.
This paper applies Karl Marx's conflict theory especially "false consciousness" to religious fundamentalism especially to Islamic Jihad.
1,890 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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This paper explains that every religion, as a social institution, has its fundamentalists, which drives the thought processes of its adherents, often with great social implications. The author stresses that the role of fundamentalism can best be interpreted by applying Marx's conflict theory, which emphasizes the role of power and coercion in producing social order, in conjunction with Marx's idea of "false consciousness", which theorizes that a subordinate group internalizes the values, views and thought of the dominant group, to Islamic terrorist groups who believe that they are being oppressed by the secular West, that the Western lifestyle is against Allah and those who follow him. The paper states that the main limitation to the concept of conflict theory is that there is no absolute end to the fighting; different groups continually will lash out against one another in a never-ending spiral of violence.
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"The roots of Muslim rage go back more than a thousand years. "The idea that religion and politics should be separated is relatively new, dating back a mere three hundred years." Christians tend to keep a division between church and state. "Render...unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's." In Islam, there is no such separation, and an assault upon God is seen as an assault upon the state. The United States, though built upon a separation of church and state, still struggles with the boundaries of God. In California, as in many other states, there has been an ongoing debate about whether or not to make it possible for two homosexuals to marry one another. ... Whether or not invoking God to settle a political issue is appropriate is irrelevant. What this is meant to illustrate is that religion and the belief in God has a definite power over the way people think, their beliefs, and their agendas".
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Religious Fundamentalism, 2008.
This paper refers to the works of Karen Armstrong, Mark Juergensmeyer and Malise Ruthven on the issue of holy wars and crusades.
1,635 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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The paper examines Karen Armstrong's "Holy War", Mark Juergensmeyer's "Terror in the Mind of God" and Malise Ruthven's "Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning". The paper discusses Armstrong's theory that fundamentalist religion is essentially a response to and a product of modern culture, Juergensmeyer's belief that cultures of violence, and not the religion itself, cause terrorism within fundamental believers and Ruthven's explanation of fundamentalism. The paper shows how the three authors each offer important insight into understanding both the history and current status of religious fundamentalism.
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"In Holy War: Armstrong argues that it was the historic crusades against the Byzantine empire overrun by Muslim Turks by the Christian warriors summoned by Pope Urban II. During this period, the Christian fundamentalist took up the cross and the sword against the Turks with the sole purpose of recovering the holy city of Jerusalem from Islam. It is this initial battle that is still today raging, as the sides of Christians, Jews and Muslims continue to fight against the modern holder of the holy lands, whether the ownership be actual or theoretical."
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Karen Armstrong's "The Battle for God", 2004.
Summary and review of Karen Armstrong's book about religious fundamentalism.
1,114 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper summarizes Karen Armstrong's book, "The Battle for God", and explains the book's focus on the evolution of religious fundamentalism. The paper describes Armstrong's views of fundamentalism, the element of irony depicted in her work, and how she explains the fundamentalist view of secularists.
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"The book ?The Battle For God? by Armstrong is based on the religious fundamentalism that has evolved over the years as the most powerful force in the 21st century. Written in the context of internationalization and imperialism, Armstrong focuses on the way the religious groups and sects organize their fundamental origins and the way these fundamental origins have challenged the secular norms of the dominant cultures of the world. This challenging facet of religious fundamentalism has along other concerns disturbed the global peace and harmony. In this book, Armstrong has focused on this evolution of the fundamentalism and what this fundamentalism is aimed to accomplish, either through actions or narration. Accordingly, ?we see the West in the sixteenth century beginning to create an entirely new kind of civilization, which brought in its wake change in every aspect of life -- often painful and violent, even if liberating. Armstrong argues that one of the things that changed most was religion."
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Fundamentalism as a Response to Liberalism, 2006.
This paper compares and contrasts fundamentalism and liberalism.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 4 sources, $ 115.95
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This paper, based on Macedo, refers to Rorty and others, to explain present antipathy between liberalism and fundamentalism. The writer points out that liberalism has usually found its solution in all matters of religion in toleration, but fails to recognize that liberalism represents a kind of fundamentalism. The writer makes reference to Fromm and uses an example from Martin Luther King Jr. Further, the writer describes kinds of fundamentalism and what they may indicate of liberalism's failings.
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"Liberalism has results other than the growing freedom or happiness posited by Utilitarian and later thought. Fundamentalism, as discussed by Macedo among others, indicates liberalism's failings when approaching human anxieties that may be expressed in a 'return to the past' as held up by fundamentalism. Macedo states that religious toleration, at first, does not seem to have much to do with contemporary political philosophy as it expects a firm separation of the religious and the secular. However, large questions facing political philosophy in the present happen to have to do with matters of not just religion but religious fundamentalism."
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Women and Fundamentalism in the Abrahamic Religions, 2007.
An analysis of the roles of women, fundamentalism and marriage within the context of Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
1,944 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper analyzes the roles of women, fundamentalism and marriage within the context of Abrahamic religions. It discusses the importance of these three factors in making up the crucial issues that are part of the modern perceptions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism. It discusses the major impact that religious fundamentalism can have on society and compares the major tenets of sexuality and marriage within Christianity, Judaism and Islam.
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"In conclusion, the role of women, fundamentalism, and marriage are challenging issues within the context of Abrahamic religions in modern secular society. In many ways, the limited role of women and marriage for these age-old religious faiths is being reconstructed within the modern world. Although the rising problem of religious fundamentalism is challenging secular government in recent times, they are normatively small groups that do not hold sway over the majority rule. In this manner, the changing role of women, fundamentalism, and marriage are crucially critical issues that need to understood within context of Abrahamic religions in the 21st century."
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Islamic Fundamentalism, 2002.
This paper discusses the history of the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in twentieth century North Africa.
1,930 words (approx. 7.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper explains that the understanding of the growing prevalence of Islamic fundamentalism is greatly hindered by the tendency of historians to fuse the reasons for its growth with its perceived 'threat', which is often defined more by the political calculations of governments than the objectives of fundamentalist movements. The author points out that this growth is the manifestation of regional politics, social and economic inequalities and reaction against political authoritarianism and that the manifestations of Islamic fundamentalist movements are differentiated by virtue of specific local political structures and the colonial experiences of the individual North African countries. The paper relates that the gulf between the government in Egypt and society is so great that it depends on Al-Azhar to create an impression of religious legitimacy; while the government attempts to respond to concerns about foreign influences in the media, it has given Al-Azhar primary role over censorship of electronic media so that the government can shift the blame if need be.
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"Given these simultaneous - and contradictory - impulses, of extension and fragmentation, one could argue that the movement's growth is defined from Western eyes by the implicit threat perceived in its spread. With some justification, the ideas of Hassan al-Banna or Sayyid Qutb, have such a wide currency across North Africa because of their ability to be transferred to different contexts. Hostility against Western notions of the secular state or nationalization is enunciated by 'Abd al-Slam Yasin, for example. In this way, therefore, is the spread of Islamic fundamentalist movements accentuated in Western perspectives by its ideological 'threat'. And yet, in fact, such a threat materializes generally only when these ideas are mobilized to suit the political needs or objectives of the ruler."
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Islamic Fundamentalism, 2005.
An overview of the causes of Islamic fundamentalism, with a focus on Egypt.
2,913 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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This paper examines the reasons that motivate people to embrace fundamentalism, looks at what fundamentalist groups can offer to the people, and why they are so popular. It explores how the idea of religion is extremely important in motivating people and making them support a cause and how Islamic groups directly discuss the economic and social problems, which confront the Egyptian middle and lower classes.
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"Firstly, according to Vandenbroucke, the economic situation and the increasing division between the rich and the poor, is a very important reason for the growth of fundamentalism in Egypt (33). Furthermore, a study done by Saad El Din Ibrahim, a professor of sociology at the American University in Cairo, also showed that one answer to why fundamentalists attract people so strongly, is related to urbanization and economic conditions (19-20). Or, in other words, it is "a sort of complex reaction to a combination of factors: runaway inflation, conspicuous consumption, moral dissolution - all bred of the influx of oil revenues" (23)."
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Islamic Fundamentalism, 2002.
An overview of islamic fundamentalism today.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 11 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper examines Islamic fundamentalism. It outlines its emergence and also identifies its influence and importance today.
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Hindu Fundamentalism, 2004.
This paper discusses the rise of Hindu fundamentalism in India.
4,780 words (approx. 19.1 pages), 1155 sources, APA, $ 122.95
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This paper explains that fundamentalists seek to reconstruct the world in two-fold dedication to the unfolding eschatological drama by returning all things to the divine and to self-protection by choosing the elements of custom and modernity. The author points out that, in India, the Hindu fundamentalist groups are trying to curtail the activities of other religious groups and to control the expressions of those not meeting the requirements of their worldview. The paper stresses that all citizens, including the Hindus, must oppose the concept that to be Indian one has to be a Hindu and must state that the formation of a Hindu nation will harm the country.
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"Luckily, the BJP has completed its five year term without any major riots between the Hindus and Muslims. On the other side, the attacks on the institutions of the Christians have increased along with harassment, humiliation and even murder of Christian missionaries. The Pope visited India in November 1999 and called for preaching and conversion to Christianity, and this led the Sangh to feel that the works of charity in various forms by the missionaries to be only inducements for conversion to Christianity. This has led to many violent reactions under the slightest pretexts ? four nuns were raped in Jhabua of Madhya Pradesh; a priest and teacher in Bihar was forcibly stripped naked, paraded and made to walk for 16 kilo-meters while being beaten all the time and Bihar is not ruled by the Sangh."
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Democracy vs. Fundamentalism, 2002.
The argument for democracy over Osama Bin Laden's religious Islamic Fundamentalism.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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This paper will discuss how Osama Bin laden plays into the idea of terrorism and why democracy needs to oust this Islamic Fundamentalist from power. The forms of government in this state of Muslim extremism form irrational government, as Democracy offers secular advantages of separation of Church and State.
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Islamic Fundamentalism & Political Development, 1999.
Examines rise & spread of Islam in Middle East in 1980s-1990s in terms of factionalism, impact on politics & higher educational institutions, role of [Qur'an], economics and gender relations.
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This research explores the role of Islamic Fundamentalism in contemporary Islamic societies. An emphasis in this exploration is on the relationship between Islamic Fundamentalism and institutions of higher education.
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"LINKS BETWEEN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM & HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS
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This research explores the role of Islamic Fundamentalism in contemporary Islamic societies. An emphasis in this exploration is on the relationship between Islamic Fundamentalism and institutions of higher education.
Islamic Fundamentalism
Islamic Fundamentalism is a movement whose aim is to return Islamic society and religion to essential and traditional Islamic values, as those values are understood, interpreted, and enunciated by the adherents of Islamic Fundamentalism (Sayeed 4). In the context of returning a society and a religion to the essential and traditional values as those values are understood.."
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Political Islam and Islamic Fundamentalism, 2002.
This essay describes how and when Islam made an impact as a political ideal as well as its repercussions leading up to today.
2,090 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 65.95
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This paper elaborates on Islam and its religious politcal history for the past 100 years, including the later part of this century. It offers some insights into what may have given rise to what is now known today as Islamic fundamentalism.
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"While the roots of political Islam can be traced back to the time of Mohammed, the real impact of Islam as a political ideal came about with the Iranian revolution and the Ayatollah Khomeini. The new brand of political Islam that Khomeini brought to Iran was a new, more militant Islam than the world had previously been exposed to. During the time of the Ottoman Empire, Islam was spread as the ideal religion, however, there was room for both branches of Islam, Sunni and Shiite, to practice. There was also a place for Christians and Jews, although it was on the second class level. However, Khomeini?s brand of religious zealotry was harsh and dictatorially strict."
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Religious Fundamentalism, 2002.
A study of how society is affected by religious zealots who are out of control.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 71.95
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A paper on the effects of religious fundamentalism on society.
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