fundamentalism

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/11/2021
  

  Is There a Way to Dial Down the Political Hatred?

  by Molly Worthen

  Are fanatical political opinions a refiguring of the need for spiritual meaning in a secular society? What are the prospects for dialogue and coexistence? 

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• 2/14/2021
  

  History, Evidence and the Ethics of Belief

  by Guy Lancaster

  Untrammelled freedom of belief has been enshrined as an American civic virtue. The nation, democracy, and possibly the planet are imperiled without a collective commitment to respect belief only to the extent available evidence supports it. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/9/2020
  

  The Persistence Of Creationism Shows Losing Could Make Trumpism More Extreme

  by Adam Laats

  Modern sophisticates were confident that the Scopes Trial marked the defeat and discrediting of creationism. Those alarmed by the denialism of Trump supporters about the election results should remember that the rumors of fundamentalism's demise were greatly exaggerated. 

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• 5/31/2020
  

  Trump and the Puritans

  by Martyn Whittock

  No one would ever call Donald Trump a Puritan. But the 17th century religious movement is a foundation of Trump's America.

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  5/19/2020
  

  Fundamentalist Pandemics

  by Juan Cole

  What evangelicals could learn from "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/27/2020
  

  The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response

  by Katherine Stewart

  Trump’s response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/31/2020
  

  An Authoritarian Power Structure Brought Coronavirus to Liberty University

  by Adam Laats

  How one-man rule emerged at fundamentalist colleges and universities.  

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• 3/6/2020
  

  A Founder of American Religious Nationalism

  by Katherine Stewart

  Christian nationalism today is a political movement, and its primary goal is power. Its ultimate aim, formulated by R.J. Rushdoony, is to replace our modern constitutional Republic with a “biblical” order that derives its legitimacy not from the people but from God and the Bible – or, at least, the God and the Bible that men like Rushdoony claimed to know.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/8/19
  

  Fundamentalism turns 100, a landmark for the Christian Right

  by William Trollinger

  Christian fundamentalists have become a politically powerful group since the movement’s foundation in 1919.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2-14-14
  

  The Talibanization of Hindu History in India

  by Jon Wiener

  Indian history is in thrall to Hindu ultranationalists.