Top Highlights

• Fundamentalism originated in the very specific theological context of early 20th-century Protestant America,
• there are compelling family resemblances between militancies or fundamentalisms in different religious traditions.
• they are symptomatic, I believe, of the spiritual dystopias and dysfunctional cultural relationships that characterize the world of what some contemporary commentators are choosing to call ‘Late Capitalism’.
• For the secular non-believer, or for the liberal believer who takes a sophisticated view of religious discourse, the god of fundamentalism must be mischievous, if not downright evil, a demonic power who delights in setting humans at each other’s throats.
• religion, as a source of motivation and identity, seems to have replaced the old ideologies of Marxist-Leninism, national socialism, and anti-colonialism as the principal challenge to a world order based