Fundamentalisms Comprehended

In this fifth volume of the Fundamentalism Project, Fundamentalisms Comprehended, the distinguished contributors return to and test the endeavor's beginning premise: that fundamentalisms in all faiths share certain "family resemblances." Several of the essays reconsider the project's original definition of fundamentalism as a reactive, absolutist, and comprehensive mode of anti-secular religious activism. The book concludes with a capstone statement by R. Scott Appleby, Emmanuel Sivan, and Gabriel Almond that builds upon the entire Fundamentalism Project. Identifying different categories of fundamentalist movements, and delineating four distinct patterns of fundamentalist behavior toward outsiders, this statement provides an explanatory framework for understanding and comparing fundamentalisms around the world.

Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby direct the Fundamentalism Project. Marty, the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of modern Christianity at the University of Chicago, is the senior editor of Christian Century. His many books include the multivolume Modern American Religion, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Appleby, director of Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, is the author of Church and the Age Unite!: The Modernist Impulses in American Catholicism.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Martin E. Marty, R. Scott Appleby.

Ch. 1: The Enclave Culture

Emmanuel Sivan

Ch. 2: The Vision from the Madrasa and Bes Medrash: Some Parallels between Islam and Judaism

Samuel C. Heilman

Ch. 3: Mapping Indic Fundamentalisms through Nationalism and Modernity

Harjot Oberoi

Ch. 4: Fundamentalisms Narrated: Muslim, Christian, and Mystical

James L. Peacock, Tim Pettyjohn.

Ch. 5: Religious Fundamentalisms Compared: Palestinian Islamists, Militant Lebanese Shi'ites, and Radical Sikhs

Emile Sahliyeh

Ch. 6: Protestants and Catholics in Latin America: A Family Portrait

Daniel H. Levine

Ch. 7: Unity and Diversity in Islamic Fundamentalism

Said Amir Arjomand

Ch. 8: Muslim Fundamentalists: Psychosocial Profiles

Valerie J. Hoffman

Ch. 9: Buddhism, Nationhood, and Cultural Identity: A Question of Fundamentals

Gananath Obeyesekere

Ch. 10: Fundamentalism, Phenomenology, and Comparative Dimensions

S. N. Eisenstadt

Ch. 11: Fundamentalism as a Comprehensive System: Soviet Marxism and Islamic Fundamentalism Compared

Ernest Gellner

Ch. 12: From Orthodoxy to Fundamentalism: A Thousand Years of Islam in South Asia

T. N. Madan

Ch. 13: What's So Funny about Fundamentalism?

Gideon Aran

Ch. 14: Antifundamentalism

Mark Juergensmeyer

Ch. 15: The Rhetoric of Fundamentalist Conversion Narratives

Wayne C. Booth

Ch. 16: Fundamentalism: Genus and Species

Gabriel A. Almond, Emmanuel Sivan, R. Scott Appleby.

Ch. 17: Explaining Fundamentalisms

Gabriel A. Almond, Emmanuel Sivan, R. Scott Appleby.

Ch. 18: Examining the Cases

Gabriel A. Almond, Emmanuel Sivan, R. Scott Appleby.

Ch. 19: Politics, Ethnicity, and Fundamentalism

Gabriel A. Almond, Emmanuel Sivan, R. Scott Appleby.

List of Contributors

Index