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Article: The rise of global fundamentalism: fundamentalists battle what they see as modernity's evils, but the movement itself springs from a modern mindset.(Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- May 7, 2004
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In the Middle East, Osama bin Laden fulminates against the infidel West. Here at home, Jerry Falwell terms Islam a demonic religion and Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin boasts to a church group that his God is bigger than the God of Islam. At the dawn of the 21st century, religious warfare seems not a relic from the distant past but an all too likely prospect for the future.
The rise in religious hostility can't be detached from politics, of course. It also can't be detached from a worldwide upsurge in conservative and fundamentalist movements in religion. As religions based on a text, Islam, Christianity and Judaism are particularly prone to fundamentalism, which is ...