Sentence:  Recent books by philosopher Roger Scruton (1999, 2000) and music educator Robert Walker (2007) may be interpreted as a last desperate gasp of this form of musical <WSD>fundamentalism</WSD> or neoconservativism—the kind that tells the masses what is "good for them" on the grounds that they lack adequate bases for judgments on their own ... 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.