Fundamentalism is widely feared and its influence is growing in many of the major world faiths. Arising in reaction against modernism, fundamentalism affirms a pre-Enlightenment paradigm in a post-Enlightenment era. The author supports a prediction that fundamentalists will continue to have power in a variety of religions. But their characteristic ahistorical, absolutistic, view will limit their outreach.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Niels C. Nielsen Jr.
EAN: 9780791416532
COUNTRY: United States
PAGES: 196
WEIGHT: 445 g
HEIGHT: 229 mm
PUBLISHED BY: State University of New York Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 1993-10-12
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GENRE: RELIGION / Spirituality
WIDTH: 152 mm
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Book Themes:
Spirituality and religious experience
Niels C. Nielsen, Jr. , is J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University.