{"id":11882,"date":"2015-05-09T19:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T19:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/?p=11882"},"modified":"2018-10-05T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T14:59:41","slug":"what-is-fundamentalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2015\/05\/09\/what-is-fundamentalism\/","title":{"rendered":"What is fundamentalism?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11910\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/files\/2015\/05\/Dave_Harrington.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11910\" class=\"wp-image-11910 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/files\/2015\/05\/Dave_Harrington-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dave_Harrington_Watt\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Watt<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_11911\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/files\/2015\/05\/Khalid-2010-222x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11911\" class=\"wp-image-11911 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/files\/2015\/05\/Khalid-2010-222x300-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Khalid-2010-222x300\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Khalid Blankinship<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[ensemblevideo contentid=4Uo-uyTYfEizQUbbAOxllg audio=true showcaptions=true displayAnnotations=true displayattachments=true audioPreviewImage=true]<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..the<strong><em> New Oxford American Dictionary\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>(3rd edition) gives the following definition of fundamentalism&#8230;..<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"pagetitle\">fundamentalism <span class=\"pronunciation\">\/\u02ccf\u0259nd\u0259\u02c8men(t)l\u02cciz\u0259m\/<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"senseGroup\">\n<p>\u25b6\u00a0noun<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"m_en_us1249529.001\"><span class=\"definitionElem\">a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li id=\"m_en_us1249529.002\" class=\"subSense\">\n<div class=\"senseInnerWrapper\"><span class=\"definitionElem\">strict adherence to the basic principles of any subject or discipline: <\/span><span class=\"exampleGroup\"><em class=\"exampleElem\">free-market fundamentalism<\/em>.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..and the <strong><em>Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(2003) gives this definition&#8230;..<\/p>\n<h1 id=\"pagetitle\" class=\"oxencycl-title\"><span class=\"oxencycl-headword\">Fundamentalism<\/span>.<span class=\"availabilityIcon unlocked\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<div id=\"acref-9780192800947-div1-1978\" class=\"div1\">\n<p>In general, a description of those who return to what they believe to be the fundamental truths and practices of a religion. It can thus be applied to this attitude in all religions (e.g. the resurgence of conservative Islam is sometimes called \u2018Islamic fundamentalism\u2019). But this use is often resented by such people, because of its more usual identification with those, in Christianity, who defend the Bible against charges that it contains any kind of error. More specifically, it denotes the view of Protestant Christians opposed to the historical and theological implications of critical study of the Bible.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid overtones of closed-mindedness, Christians in the Fundamentalist tradition often prefer to be called Conservative Evangelicals.<\/p>\n<p>The word (Arab. equivalents are salafiyya and u\u1e63\u016bliyya) is used of Muslims, when it refers to those who assert the literal truth of the Qur\u02be\u0101n and the validity of its legal and ritual commandments for modern people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing that my two guests, Temple University professors\u00a0David Watt (History) and Khalid Blankinship (Religion) would have some problems with each of these definitions. I invited them to my office to speak about <strong><em>Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History<\/em><\/strong> (University of South Carolina Press, 2014, <a title=\"Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested Hitory\" href=\"http:\/\/diamond.temple.edu\/record=b5632818~S30\">Print<\/a> \/ <a title=\"Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History\" href=\"http:\/\/diamond.temple.edu\/record=b5632987~S30\">Online<\/a>) on March 6, 2015. This anthology, edited by David Watt and Simon A. Wood, presents multiple scholarly perspectives on the history, concept, and use of the term &#8220;fundamentalism&#8221; in the monotheistic traditions of\u00a0Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. David Watt is a specialist on Protestant Christianity and Khalid Blankinship on Islam.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who pays attention to the news, it&#8217;s difficult to make it through the day without hearing the word fundamentalism\u00a0thrown around in many different ways and in many different contexts. Among scholars, some believe that this term captures a set of features and characteristics that generally hold across religious boundaries, while others assert that its use\u00a0obscures diversity and collapses differences. While <em>Fundamentalism: Perspectives on a Contested History<\/em> contains perspectives from each side of this debate, my two guests belong to the latter group. Both have contributed chapters to the present volume.<\/p>\n<p>This interview will provide listeners with a deeper appreciation of the diversity of beliefs and practices that lies behind the term fundamentalism. An understanding of its origin, transformation, and use\u00a0will prompt consumers of the news to listen more closely, read more carefully, and ask better questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Download Link\" href=\"https:\/\/ensemble.temple.edu\/app\/unprotected\/download.aspx?ContentID=bb3e4ae1-d824-487c-b341-46db00ec6596\">Audio Download Link<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(mp3)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Audio Embed Code:<\/strong><br \/>\n<textarea>&lt;iframe id=&#8221;ensembleEmbeddedContent_4Uo-uyTYfEizQUbbAOxllg&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/ensemble.temple.edu\/app\/plugin\/embed.aspx?ID=4Uo-uyTYfEizQUbbAOxllg&amp;displayTitle=true&amp;startTime=0&amp;autoPlay=false&amp;hideControls=false&amp;showCaptions=true&amp;width=400&amp;height=26&amp;displaySharing=false&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8243; style=&#8221;width:400px;height:81px;&#8221; height=&#8221;81&#8243; width=&#8221;400&#8243; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;<\/textarea><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Fred Rowland contact info\" href=\"http:\/\/library.temple.edu\/about\/staff?search=rowland\">&#8212;Fred Rowland<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; [ensemblevideo contentid=4Uo-uyTYfEizQUbbAOxllg audio=true showcaptions=true displayAnnotations=true displayattachments=true audioPreviewImage=true] &#8230;..the New Oxford American Dictionary\u00a0(3rd edition) gives the following definition of fundamentalism&#8230;.. fundamentalism \/\u02ccf\u0259nd\u0259\u02c8men(t)l\u02cciz\u0259m\/ \u25b6\u00a0noun a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/2015\/05\/09\/what-is-fundamentalism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[108,3,5,81],"tags":[170,109,188,23],"class_list":["post-11882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-human-sciences","category-religion","category-rowland","tag-history","tag-interview","tag-religion","tag-top-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/humansciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}