Fundamentalism

//ˌfʌndəˈmentəlɪzəm//

"Fundamentalism" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Poe's Law is an axiom suggesting that it's difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between parodies of religious or other fundamentalism and its genuine proponents, since they both seem equally insane.

It raises the question of fundamentalism.

We must reject any forms of fundamentalism, or racism, or a belief in ethnic superiority that makes our traditional identities irreconcilable with modernity. Instead we need to embrace the tolerance that results from respect of all human beings.

We must fight religious fundamentalism.

Kabye people fought terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism fiercely in the 1990s.

He turned to Islamic fundamentalism.

There are occasional outbreaks of religious fundamentalism in Algeria.

Having immigrated from the Philippines to North America, my father, who was a Roman Catholic, learned about Christian Fundamentalism from his converted Filipino friends. Soon, he became converted to a Baptist Protestant. Then, he recruited my mother, my paternal grandmother, and my cousin.

The demonstrators chant "long live democracy, long live freedom and down with fundamentalism."

Christian fundamentalism is a religious movement common in the American South, different from more traditional forms of Protestantism.

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Recent books by philosopher Roger Scruton (1999, 2000) and music educator Robert Walker (2007) may be interpreted as a last desperate gasp of this form of musical fundamentalism or neoconservativism—the kind that tells the masses what is "good for them" on the grounds that they lack adequate bases for judgments on their own […]

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