01989nam a2200277Ia 4500 TVU_16196 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 0192840916 9780192840912 eng 200.904 R522 Ruthven, Malise Fundamentalism the search for meaning Malise Ruthven Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2004 vi, 246 p. 21 cm Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-236) and index 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 Religious fundamentalism Malise Ruthven Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh