Fundamentalism: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Fundamentalism: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780199212705

ISBN-10: 0199212708

ISBN-13: 9780199212705

Edition: 2007

Authors: Malise Ruthven

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Fundamentalism is seen as the major threat to world peace today, a conclusion impossible to ignore since the events in New York on September 11, 2001. But what does "fundamentalism" really mean? Since it was coined by American Protestant evangelicals in the 1920s, the use of the term "fundamentalist" has expanded to include a diverse range of radical conservatives and ideological purists, not all religious. Fundamentalism could now mean both militant Israeli settlers as well as the Islamist radicals who oppose them, it can mean Christians, Hindus, animal liberationists, and even Buddhist nationalists. Here, Middle East expert Malise Ruthven investigates fundamentalism's historical, social,…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 4.33" wide x 6.85" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Malise Ruthven is a former editor with the BBC Arabic Service and World Service in London and is the author of Islam in the World and Islam: A Very Short Introduction.



Preface


List of illustrations



Family resemblances



The scandal of difference



The snares of literalism



Controlling women



Fundamentalism and nationalism I



Fundamentalism and nationalism II



Conclusion


References


Further reading


Index