fundamentalism

English

Etymology

From fundamental +‎ -ism. First used in the 1910s by American Christians.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌfʌndəˈmentəlɪzəm/
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Noun

fundamentalism (countable and uncountable, plural fundamentalisms)

  1. (religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
    Synonym: bibliolatry
  2. (by extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
    • 2009, Thomas A. Regelski, J. Terry Gates, Music Education for Changing Times: Guiding Visions for Practice:
      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 fundamentalism 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 […]
  3. (finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.
  4. (theology) A Christian movement that started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants, which emphasizes literal interpretation of the Bible, and came up as a reaction to liberal theology and cultural modernism

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  1. ^ Colin Woodard (2011) chapter 24, in American Nations:
    Christian fundamentalism appeared in North America in reaction to the liberal theologies that were becoming dominant in the northern nations. It took its name from The Fundamentals, a twelve-volume attack on liberal theology, evolution, atheism, socialism, Mormons, Catholics, Christian Scientists, and Jehovah’s Witnesses written by Appalachian Baptist preacher A. C. Dixon.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French fondamentalisme. By surface analysis, fundamental +‎ -ism.

Noun

fundamentalism n (uncountable)

  1. (religion, philosophy) fundamentalism

Declension

Declension of fundamentalism
singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative fundamentalism fundamentalismul
genitive-dative fundamentalism fundamentalismului
vocative fundamentalismule

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Swedish

Noun

fundamentalism c

  1. fundamentalism

Declension

Declension of fundamentalism
nominative genitive
singular indefinite fundamentalism fundamentalisms
definite fundamentalismen fundamentalismens
plural indefinite fundamentalismer fundamentalismers
definite fundamentalismerna fundamentalismernas

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