Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment
This paper makes a case for an instrumentalist and modernist logic to fundamentalism and argues that the environment frames fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is not new per se, but its form has evolved through time and varies in different contexts. I will show how fundamentalisms work as strategies of...
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| author | Lim, Audrey Yueying |
| author2 | Liow, Joseph Chin Yong |
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| description | This paper makes a case for an instrumentalist and modernist logic to fundamentalism and argues that the environment frames fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is not new per se, but its form has evolved through time and varies in different contexts. I will show how fundamentalisms work as strategies of adapting to the international system and how they employ various means to ensure their survival in the ongoing "war of fundamentalisms". Religious violence is thus a survival strategy that is used in this war, which is currently being fought between the hegemonic fundamentalism -Western modernity, and the other "peripheral fundamentalisms". |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/142872020-11-01T08:08:32Z Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment Lim, Audrey Yueying Liow, Joseph Chin Yong S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences This paper makes a case for an instrumentalist and modernist logic to fundamentalism and argues that the environment frames fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is not new per se, but its form has evolved through time and varies in different contexts. I will show how fundamentalisms work as strategies of adapting to the international system and how they employ various means to ensure their survival in the ongoing "war of fundamentalisms". Religious violence is thus a survival strategy that is used in this war, which is currently being fought between the hegemonic fundamentalism -Western modernity, and the other "peripheral fundamentalisms". Master of Science (Strategic Studies) 2008-11-13T09:16:39Z 2008-11-13T09:16:39Z 2005 2005 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14287 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences Lim, Audrey Yueying Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment |
| title | Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment |
| title_full | Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment |
| title_fullStr | Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment |
| title_short | Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment |
| title_sort | contesting fundamentalisms ongoing adaptations to a changing environment |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences |
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