Modern day fundamentalism is an extreme reaction to the complexity and immorality of today's world...Their understandable longing for security leads some to look for a way to cut through the complexities of modern life and reestablish fundamental truths. Fundamentalists try to satisfy their "lust for certitude" by oversimplifying things, by making a passionate commitment to a part, and sometimes to a distortion, of the truth. Fundamentalism may oppose the immorality of today's world, and may appear to oppose its complexity, but how does the author expect to establish his claim that fundamentalism is an extreme reaction etc.? I skimmed the article from the link you provided, but found no support for these claims. Perhaps you would be so kind...?
The world, including fundamentalism, is indeed complex. Perhaps the author is himself reacting to the complexity by trying to see things in simple terms: fundamentalism is a reaction.
And having produced this "theory of fundmentalism" without the benefit of any evidence, he now forces all of his observations to fit into this framework.
Of course, that is how the social "sciences" seem to operate these days.
Fundamentalism may oppose the immorality of today's world, and may appear to oppose its complexity, but how does the author expect to establish his claim that fundamentalism is an extreme reaction etc.? --- Perhaps you would be so kind...?
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I see these extreme reactions from self described 'conservative' fundamentalists virtually every day here at FR.
- They defend a states 'right' [Ca.] to prohibit 'assault weapons'.
--- They defend the federal WoDs.
They even defend the silly act of congress that we must call ourselves a nation 'under' God, and rant that we should make an amendment to that effect.
On & on, you can go through most any thread, and get such fundamentalist fervor.
Please, try to say it isn't so. - I wish it wasn't.