Genesis and Development of Religious Fundamentalism: Socio-philosophical Aspects

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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.317How to use a DOI?

Keywords

religion; fundamentalism; Islam; evangelical churches; philosophy of religion; religious studies; modernization

Abstract

The article deal with the analysis of social and philosophical aspects of the complex and ambiguous phenomenon of religious fundamentalism. The formation and development of this trend can be traced, not in the chronological order of the emergence of fundamentalist trends within the framework of various religious traditions, but in the process of understanding fundamentalism as an independent phenomenon of religious studies and political thought. The article analyzes the origination of religious fundamentalism in the United States, the formation and development of Islamic fundamentalist trends, manifestations of fundamentalism within other traditions, and their politicization and intertwining with other socio-political processes. The article reveals the essence of fundamentalism in the context of the process of globalization. The author demonstrates that fundamentalism as a whole is not synonymous with traditionalism but is one of the possible responses of religious consciousness to the rapid process of modernization.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Alexey Volobuev
PY  - 2018/07
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TI  - Genesis and Development of Religious Fundamentalism: Socio-philosophical Aspects
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities (ICCESSH 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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