Slide show prepared for a series of lectures on fundamentalism for PS 240 Introduction to Political Theory at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.

1. Fundamentalism Dr. Christopher S. Rice

4. Contemporary Jewish Fundamentalism

5. Six-Day War (1967)

6. Kookists

7. Gush Emunin

10. Contemporary Islamic Fundamentalism

14. Arab Pan-Nationalism

15. IRAN

21. Contemporary Christian Fundamentalism

22. The “Great Awakening”

23. The New Israel

24. Contemporary Christian Fundamentalists

27. Roe v. Wade

28. Opposition to contemporary liberalism, secular humanism

30. Philosophy of Fundamentalism

31. Fundamentalism Strict adherence to ancient or fundamental doctrines, with no concessions to modern developments in thought or customs.

33. Science explains the what , not the why …

35. “ If God be for us, who can be against us?”

37. Sacred Texts

38. Inerrancy vs. Science

39. Human Nature

40. Social Creatures

41. Women ≠ Men

43. Maintenance of “Traditional Families”

44. Secular Humanism

45. Secular Humanism Public/Private Split, Banishment of Religion from Public Sphere

46. Secular Humanism Public/Private Split, Banishment of Religion from Public Sphere Science

47. Secular Humanism Public/Private Split, Banishment of Religion from Public Sphere Science Individualism

48. Secular Humanism Public/Private Split, Banishment of Religion from Public Sphere Science Individualism Relativism & Multiculturalism

49. Relativism the viewpoint that all beliefs and practices are simply matters of taste, including those beliefs of the fundamentalists. No belief or practice may be viewed as objectively correct.

50. GOALS

51. Ideological?

52. Superpatriotism the tendency to place nationalistic pride and supremacy above every other public consideration, the readiness to follow our leaders uncritically in their dealings with other nations, especially confrontations involving the use of military force and violence.

53. “ We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions – by abandoning every value except the will to power – they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. ” President George W. Bush, “Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People”

54. Community of Believers

55. Totalitarianism the complete control of society – government, social, economic, cultural institutions – in order to fulfill an ideological vision of how society should be organized and how life should be lived.

59. Authority

60. Jewish & Christian Fundamentalists vs. Muslim Fundamentalists