The Clash of Fundamentalisms

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>
> > Maybe it's you, Chuck, or maybe it's me with my relative success as a
>lawyer
> > and formerly a professor, but I don't experience this yawning void, 
>etc.,
>of
> > which you speak. I think what's called for is materialist analysis of 
>the
> > appeals of fundamentalism, not existentialism. jks
>
>What would a materialist analysis look like, in this case?  If it were to 
>be
>plausible, it would have to account for the vast psychic comfort of a)
>believing in God and b) believing yourself to be (infallibly) in the right.
>
>-- Luke
>

Materialist doesn'r mean narrowly economic, as in,w ho's making money off 
it. It means,w ith attention to class position and consciousness, social 
relations--not jsut universal angst having to do with theEmptiness of Modern 
Society. For a deeply spiritually attuned materialist account of a religious 
revival, read EP Thompson's chapteron Wesleyianism in The Making of the 
English Working Class.

jks

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