num_pages: 602
description: The Fundamentalism Project Edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby Around the world fundamentalist movements are profoundly affecting the way we live. Misinformation and misperception about fundamentalism exacerbate conflicts at home and abroad. Yet policymakers journalists students and others have lacked any comprehensive resource on the explosive phenomenon of fundamentalism. Now the Fundamentalism Project has assembled an international team of scholars for a multivolume assessment of the history scope sources character and impact of fundamentalist movements within the world's major religious traditions.Fundamentalisms and Society shows how fundamentalist movements have influenced human relations education women's rights and scientific research in over a dozen nations and within the traditions of Islam Judaism Christianity Buddhism and Hinduism. Drawn from the fields of anthropology sociology history of religion and history of science the contributors cover topics such as the educational structures of Hindu revivalism women in fundamentalist Iran and Pakistan and the creationist cosmos of Protestant fundamentalism. In a concluding essay William H. McNeill situates contemporary fundamentalisms within a world historical context. The Fundamentalism Project Volume 2 Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby direct the Fundamentalism Project. Marty the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Modern Christianity at the University of Chicago is the senior editor of the Christian Century and the author of numerous books including the multivolume Modern American Religion also published by the University of Chicago Press. Appleby a research associate at the University of Chicago is the author of Church and Age Unite! The Modernist Impulse in American Catholicism.
language: English
title: Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education
publisher: University of Chicago Press