RELIGIJSKI FUNDAMENTALIZAM: VRAĆANJE TRADICIJI MODERNIM SREDSTVIMA
RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM: RETURN TO TRADITION VIA MODERN MEANS

Summary/Abstract: Neither the meaning itself, nor the use of the idea of fundamentalism, have always been the same. Although, particularly today, this expression has been used for various purposes, it would be more correct to speak about early fundamentalism, which starts from a tension, and later on also from a clash, with modernization and modern living conditions and new forms of fundamentalism, directed at conquering public and political fields. Therefore, the fundamentalism transforms itself from a conservative movement advocating the reform of religion within its own ranks, into a revolutionary political movement, which shrinks from no means to promote its goals. Orthodoxy is thrown away, and an active socio-political practice is adopted. If the early fundamentalism used to take religion as its goal, the new one uses it as the means of mobilization and homogenization, all in order to seize power and alter the historic development of society.

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