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Since the end of the Cold War, fundamentalism has been seen as the major threat to world peace, a conclusion that was burned into our consciousness on September 11th and that is reinforced almost every day in the Middle East. But what exactly is fundamentalism?
Here is the first book to explore the real nature of secular and religious fundamentalism worldwide, highlighting the many different forms fundamentalism can take. Examining Christian, Islamic, Jewish, Buddhist, and Hindu sects, Malise Ruthven offers a sweeping look at this phenomenon, examining its historical, social, religious, political and ideological backgrounds and providing a critical view of the burgeoning literature on this highly diverse set of movements. Fundamentalism, he concludes, is a problematic term that defies easy definitions. Coined by American Protestant evangelicals in the 1920s, the word's meaning has expanded to include radical conservatives and ideological purists in many spheres of activity, not all of them religious. Fundamentalism embraces Islamic radicals in the Muslim world as well as the militant Israeli settlers who oppose them. It has been used to describe Sikh, Hindu and even Buddhist nationalists who seek to justify their political agendas by reference to divine edicts or religious tradition. Ruthven agrees that there are some "family resemblances" between different fundamentalist movements, especially over concerns of national identity and gender, but he ultimately questions its usefulness as a term.
One of the world's leading commentators on Islam, Malise Ruthven writes with a clarity and directness that never fails to engage the reader. In this superb volume, he guides us through what is clearly a complex topic, but one that is vitally important in the modern world.

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'Heave an egg out of a Pullman window', wrote H. L. Mencken, the famous American journalist, in the 1920s, 'and you will hit a Fundamentalist almost anywhere in the United States today.'

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  • Title Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning
  • Author Malise Ruthven
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New Ed
  • Pages 260
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford
  • Publication date 2005-06-02
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780192806062 / 0192806068
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.86 x 5.58 x 0.43 in (19.96 x 14.17 x 1.09 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Buddhist
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Religious Orientation: Hindu
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Religious fundamentalism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2004042980
  • Dewey Decimal Code 200.904

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Malise Ruthven is the author of A Fury for God: The Islamist Attack on America, A Satanic Affair: Salman Rushdie and the Wrath of Islam, and Islam in the World.

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