Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789047401827
Series Statement:
Studies in the history of religions v. 96
Content:
Preliminary Material /David Zeidan -- Acknowledgements /David Zeidan -- Notes /David Zeidan -- Abbreviations /David Zeidan -- Introduction /David Zeidan -- Historical Background to Protestant, Christian and Islamic Fundamentalisms /David Zeidan -- The Phenomenon of Fundamentalism: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations /David Zeidan -- Anti-Secularism as a Main Common Denominator /David Zeidan -- Sacred Scripture as God's Revealed Standard and Law /David Zeidan -- Attitudes to Religion, Politics, and the State /David Zeidan -- The Past Golden Age and Contemporary Religious Politics /David Zeidan -- The Contemporary Battle /David Zeidan -- Conclusion /David Zeidan -- Biographies of Primary Source Authors /David Zeidan -- Bibliography /David Zeidan -- Index /David Zeidan -- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series /David Zeidan.
Content:
This book is a comparative study of basic themes in Christian and Islamic fundamentalist discourses, analyzing and comparing texts from a wide variety of fundamentalist leaders and movements, looking for \'family resemblances\' and significant differences in order to better understand the contemporary phenomenon of religious resurgence. After placing fundamentalisms in a theoretical framework, the study looks at selected themes important to fundamentalists, noting resemblances and differences. These themes include their anti-secularist stance, their theocentric worldviews, their reliance on inerrant sacred scriptures, and their attitudes to politics, government, state and democracy. The study also looks at the fundamentalist view of the world as a perennial battlefield between the forces of good and those of evil, in the realm of ideologies as well as politics and the legitimation of violence
Note:
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-371) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004128774
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Resurgence of Religion: A Comparative Study of Selected Themes in Christian and Islamic Fundamentalist Discourses Leiden, Boston : BRILL, [2003] ISBN 9789004128774
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789047401827
