Word Finder - fundamentalism

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The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.

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(by extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.

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The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.

Extreme religious fundamentalism is very far removed from Humanism.

In fact, the gravest threat facing the West is that posed by Islamic fundamentalism.

Sinhala-Buddhist fundamentalism also differs in important ways from other types of religious fundamentalism.

Jewish fundamentalism and the settlers movement needs Hamas and Islamic Jihad and vise versa.

While other regimes have sought to suppress or promote fundamentalism, Hussein has decided to co-opt it.

I am expecting the conclusions, as with so many things, to point toward pragmatic compromise rather than dogmatic, hardcore fundamentalism.

One of them is the market fundamentalism to which the poor nations have been forced to submit.

Once you let the genie of fundamentalism out of the bottle it goes wild.

He has shown what happens when you mix celebrity and fundamentalism, two of the most potent hallucinogens of the modern world.

The Iraqis may celebrate their independence by embracing a long-suppressed fundamentalism, and the United States may respond by seeking to crush it.

Does Islamic fundamentalism pose a threat to the West?

In reality, it is secular fundamentalism which has become the scourge of our time.

When did the term fundamentalism become something that encompassed more than core belief?