What are They Saying about Fundamentalisms?

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What are They Saying about Fundamentalisms? is written by Peter A. Huff and published by Paulist Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0809143577 (ISBN 10) and 9780809143573 (ISBN 13).

This is the age of fundamentalism. An axis of sacred rebellion cuts through modern experience, challenging all who would accommodate religion to secular culture and a ?dictatorship of relativism.' Sometimes violent, always militant, fundamentalists have profoundly transformed the religious landscape of modern society.This book offers a critical and empathetic survey of the world's major fundamentalist movements and the innovative scholars who study them. Peter Huff, an advocate for interfaith dialogue with fundamentalists, covers the full range of the cross-cultural fundamentalist phenomenon'from the American Protestant prototype to ?muscular? protest movements transfiguring every religion around the globe. Examining the pioneers of interdisciplinary fundamentalism studies, he provides an insider's view of the academic debates driving the rapidly expanding field.Highlight:? The book explores fundamentalist trends within all major world religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism.