Fundamentalism
Date
2002-01
Authors
Renold, Leah M.
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Publisher
New York University Press
Abstract
We are at war, declares an article in the "New York Times" published shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center. The author, Andrew Sullivan, argues that we are in a religious war, a war that threatens our very existence. Not only our lives, but also our souls are at stake. Who is the enemy? It is not Islam. It is a specific form of Islam called fundamentalism. In his essay Sullivan argues that fundamentalism constitutes a large section of Islam. The article explains that fundamentalism has ancient roots and has attracted thousands of adherents for centuries from different religious faiths, including Christianity and Judaism.
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Keywords
fundamentalism, politics, war on terrorism, rhetoric, religion, media, History
Citation
Renold, L. (2002). Fundamentalism. In John Collins and Ross Glover (Ed.), Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War (pp. 94-108). New York, NY: New York University Press.