Fundamentalisms and society: reclaiming the sciences, the family, and education
This book, the second volume of the Fundamentalism Project, provides a systematic overview of the advances made by antisecular religious movements over the past twenty-five years and shows the impact these movements have had on human relations, education, women's rights, and scientific research...
| Published in: | The fundamentalism project |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Ill [u.a.]
University of Chicago Press
1993
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The fundamentalism project (2)
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| Reviews: | Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education. Martin E. Marty , R. Scott Appleby Fundamentalism and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance. Martin E. Marty , R. Scott Appleby (1995) (Casanova, José)
Family and Interpersonal Relationships (1995) (Cornwall, Marie) |
| Series/Journal: | The fundamentalism project
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Fundamentalism
/ Society
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| Further subjects: | B
Religion and sociology
B Religious Fundamentalism |
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| Summary: | This book, the second volume of the Fundamentalism Project, provides a systematic overview of the advances made by antisecular religious movements over the past twenty-five years and shows the impact these movements have had on human relations, education, women's rights, and scientific research. The essays consider developments within the religious traditions of Islam, Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, and Hinduism in over a dozen nations. What do individual fundamentalist movements regard as the foundations for and limits of knowledge? What do they understand the proper role of science to be? And how do their world views determine the application of technology? The distinguished contributors to this volume - anthropologists, historians of religion, historians of science, and sociologists - address these and other questions through a discussion of topics such as 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 is a monumental undertaking by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that involves an international group of scholars. Taken together, the volumes in this series will become a standard reference for educators and policy analysts for years to come |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0226508803 |