Fundamentalisms and Society

by Marty, Martin E.; Appleby, R. Scott

• ISBN13: 9780226508818
• ISBN10: 0226508811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-01-05
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

The Fundamentalism Project Edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby Around the world, fundamentalist movements are profoundly affecting the way we live. Misinformation and misperception about fundamentalism exacerbate conflicts at home and abroad. Yet policymakers, journalists, students, and others have lacked any comprehensive resource on the explosive phenomenon of fundamentalism. Now the Fundamentalism Project has assembled an international team of scholars for a multivolume assessment of the history, scope, sources, character, and impact of fundamentalist movements within the world's major religious traditions. Fundamentalisms and Societyshows how fundamentalist movements have influenced human relations, education, women's rights, and scientific research in over a dozen nations and within the traditions of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism. Drawn from the fields of anthropology, sociology, history of religion, and history of science, the contributors cover topics such as the educational structures of Hindu revivalism, women in fundamentalist Iran and Pakistan, and the creationist cosmos of Protestant fundamentalism. In a concluding essay, William H. McNeill situates contemporary fundamentalisms within a world historical context. The Fundamentalism Project, Volume 2 Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby direct the Fundamentalism Project. Marty, the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago, is the senior editor of theChristian Centuryand the author of numerous books, including the multivolumeModern American Religion,also published by the University of Chicago Press. Appleby, a research associate at the University of Chicago, is the author of"Church and Age Unite!" The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Sacred Cosmos

Worldviews, Science, and Technology

Religious Fundamentalism and the Sciences

The Creationist Cosmos of Protestant Fundamentalism

The Worldview of Sunni Arab Fundamentalists: Attitudes toward Modern Science and Technology

Islam and Modernity: The Reconstruction of an Alternative Shiite Islamic Worldview in Iran

Family and Interpersonal Relationships

The Impact of Fundamentalisms on Women, the Family, and Interpersonal Relations

Reshaping Personal Relations in Egypt

Obedience versus Autonomy: Women and Fundamentalism in Iran and Pakistan

Building "Fundamentalism" from the Family in Latin America

Plural Marriage and Mormon Fundamentalism

The New Religions, Family, and Society in

Education and Media

Fundamentalist Impact on Education and the Media: An Overview

Islamic Fundamentalism in Iran and the Discourse of Development

Jewish Fundamentalism in Israeli Education

The Evangelical Awakening in Guatemala: Fundamentalist Impact on Education and Media

Christian Fundamentalism and Education in the United States

The Two Faces of Fundamentalist Higher Education

Hindu Revivalism and Education in North-Central India Krishna Kumar Epilogue: Fundamentalism and the World of the 199Os

List of Contributors

Index

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