2010/06/09 by Douglas Pratt · 1 voice · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Religion and Society Interactions #American Constitutional Law and Politics #Islamic Studies and History
paper · doi:10.1080/09546551003689399
openalex publication_date 2010/06/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The history and identity of fundamentalism is complex. Religious fundamentalism names an ideological perspective found in most, if not all, major religions and is currently associated with variant forms of extremism and religiously-motivated acts of violence, including terrorism. Following a discussion of religious extremism per se, a typological paradigm of religious fundamentalism that attempts to demonstrate the ideological development from what might be referred to as an “initial” and relatively benign fundamentalism into extremism and thence to terrorism, will be presented. A discussion of a model of fundamentalism as applied to Islam will provide a comparative basis for assessing Christian fundamentalism and extremism, so setting the scene for an applied exploration of religious extremism and terrorism with particular reference to Christian contexts and examples.