Fundamentalism is exactly NOT
"religious based resusciations of their antique socio-political orders"
All contemporary scholarship on fundamentalism describes it as a MODERN response to change that calls for a return to a mythical non-existant past.
See: Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God. Book Jacket Blurb:
"Armstrong characterizes fundamentalism as one of these new ways of being religious that have emerged in every major faith tradition. Focusing on Protestant fundamentalism in the United States, Jewish fundamentalism in Israel, and Muslim fundamentalism in Egypt and Iran, she examines the ways in which these movements, while not monolithic, have each sprung from a dread of modernity -- often in response to assault (sometimes unwitting, sometimes intentional) by the mainstream society."
"Armstrong sees fundamentalist groups as complex, innovative, and modern -- rather than as throwbacks to the past -- but contends that they have failed in religious terms. Maintaining that fundamentalism often exists in symbiotic relationship with an aggressive modernity, each impelling the other on to greater excess, she suggests compassion as a way to defuse what is now an intensifying conflict."
http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?page=title&titleID=543
and an excerpt:
http://www.bookbrowse.com/index.cfm?page=title&titleID=543&view=excerpt
-Chip "get a library card" Berlet
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> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Chuck Grimes
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> Subject: "Clerical fascism" was Re: Steve Perry weighs in
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> There is something distinctly different going on in the various
> religious based resusciations of their antique socio-political orders,
> that the term fascism doesn't address. Don't ask me what, I don't
> know. Maybe after reading some more it will become more tangible to
> me.
>
> Chuck Grimes
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