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Fundamentalism
Question | Answer |
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Fundamentalism | the belief in the authenticity of religion and it's scriptures as they were given |
Totalism | the religious orientation that views religious relevancy to all cultural and social aspects of society, everything form politics, market places, politics, schools, law. |
scripturalism | the belief in a justification over acts or beliefs to be related to sacred texts. |
selective modernization | accepting only what they want from technology in the modern world |
traditioning | making anything in modern society relevant to mystic pass of religion |
attributes of fundamentalism | Numinous experience, scripture as proof-text, yearning for certainty, knowledge of nation-states, scandalous character, their selectiveness |
3 streams of tradition following Jewish and Christian Scriptures | Torah oriented tradition, Prophetic Tradition, a militant tradition |
the belief in the scripture transforming you. | Numinous Experience |
applying the scripture to every day life | Scripture as Proof-text |
the world is changing, and religion gives us some certainty in this world | yearning for certainty |
fundamentalist know that some of their exterem actions will upset the rest of the non-religious community, so they do certain things to aggravate them. (i.e making women wear veils) | scandalous characters |
selective of the scriptures they proof-text, selective of the text they now will get to other groups, selective of the text that justifies their actions | selectiveness |
Torah-oriented traditions | focuses on the book of law (the torah) |
Prophetic Tradition | focuses on emphasizing the character of God |
Militant- nation tradition | Militant streams associated with the book of Joshua. |
How to they search for purity? | Flight, Separation, and Militant Struggle |
Flight | Group move form where they are example Essenes leave Jerusalem and head to a cave overlooking the Dead sea. Druze fled from Egypt to mount Lebanon |
Separation | Radical separation from society, |
Militant Struggle |