Contending Fundamentalisms:

Religious Resurgence in the Modern

World

 

By Professor Mary Ann Tetreault

Una Chapman Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, 

Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA

 

 

 

Rising numbers of terrorist attacks by militant Muslims have grabbed headlines all over the world. Yet Islamism is only one example of religious resurgence, and terrorism is only one manifestation of its political activism. "Fundamentalism" will be discussed as a concept used to describe religious movements of various kinds including not only Islamists but also such movements as the Christian religious right, the Jewish religious right, Hindutva, and Falun Gong.


The Washington Consensus will be touched on arguing that it’s another kind of fundamentalism. What these fundamentalisms are up to, in what sense they are religious, and why we should be concerned about them.

 

 

 

 

 

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