Fundamentalism and Charismatic Movements : Critical Concepts in Religious Studies - David Lehmann

Fundamentalism and Charismatic Movements

By: David Lehmann (Editor), Humeira Iqtidar (Editor)

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The term fundamentalism carries a wide range of meanings, some of them pejorative. Here it is used to refer to what the French call 'integrism', meaning a religious code which encompasses and governs with its prescriptions the entire private and public life of individuals and the collectivity. The prime examples in the contemporary world are Muslim renewal, Christian evangelical and charismatic churches, sects and tendencies, and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism.These three varieties of movement represent radical departures from the traditions out of which they have grown. These new forms can be characterised in terms of their ability to plug into local cultural practices and incorporate them without theorizing; ability to provide a framework for coping with serious social ills among the marginalised; ability to create transcultural communities of individuals without regard to prior political, linguistic or ethnic frontiers; obsessive attention to the control of sexuality, especially female; belief in the literal ('inerrant') truth of every word in the holy text; and their emphasis on conversion as a crisis and rupture in the life of individuals.Even in its early days, Pentecostalism was a multicultural, multi-ethnic movement, drawing on black Americans, and the Mexican, European and Asian migrant communities in America for its following. Today in some countries (such as Nigeria and Ghana) the appeal seems to be more to the middle class groups, while in others, such as in Latin America and the Philippines, it is most successful among the urban poor and among indigenous peoples, and represents a profound change after five centuries of a virtual Catholic monopoly.In Islam and Judaism an erudite strand of learning has coexisted with a proliferation of healers and seers. Modern Jewish fundamentalists are however overwhelmingly focused on texts, and although their heritage in Eastern Europe (the Chassidim or pious ones) has a strong element of ecstatic prayer, that has tended to take second place in the post-Holocaust era to an institutionalization of learning. In Islam, likewise, the renewal movements, led usually by lay people rather than clergy (except in Iran), focus on the text of the Qur'an and are hostile to mystical heritage embodied by Sufism.Although the bulk of research on fundamentalism has been on the three religions mentioned, there is also appropriate coverage of Hinduism in particular, and all faiths are represented.This collection will make available in easily accessible printed form a range of papers which represent (a) the most important recent (post-c.1980) analytical and descriptive contributions to the subject in academic journals; (b) some doctrinal and historical texts; and (c) a representative coverage of the subject by theme and geographical area.

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