Fundamentalist World
Subtitle: The New Dark Age of Dogma
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Totem Books
Published: February 25, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781840466287
Subjects: Political ideologies; Politics / Current Events; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Process - Political Parties
Description: The collapse of the Argentinian economy, the rise of the far right, 9/11, suicide bombings in the Middle East, campaigns against multiculturalism, anti-abortion terrorism, the militia movement in America, teaching creationism in schools, riots at Miss World: what ties these seemingly unrelated phenomena together?. All are products of a fundamentalist mentality, determined to crush all opposing ideas. Belief in these kinds of universal theories was, until recently, assumed to be in decline. Stuart Sim argues that this is far from true.