This document defines and discusses religious fundamentalism. It begins by defining fundamentalism from different sources and exploring the roots of the term in Christianity. It then examines different types of religious fundamentalism like Islamic, Christian, Hindu and Jewish fundamentalism. The document discusses the effects of fundamentalism, like spreading terrorist activities and violence. It concludes by noting that while some see fundamentalism as threatening modern society, religions generally do not promote war or killing except in self-defense.

1. RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM
BY:
Ali Haider
Zain-Ul Islam
Asadullah Ilyas
Aamer Mehmood

2. CONTENTS
 Different definitions of fundamentalism
 Roots of the term fundamentalism
 Different types of fundamentalism
 Effects of fundamentalism
 Conclusion

3. DIFFERENT DEFINITIONS OF
FUNDAMENTALISM
 Webster Dictionary:
A movement in 20th century stressing strict
adherence to a set of basic principles
 Oxford Dictionary:
A movement for the strict maintenance of
the doctrines of any religion
 After 9/11 term Fundamentalism was written as
Muslim Fundamentalism

4. ROOTS OF THE TERM FUNDAMENTALISM
 Nigra Bible conference
 Things that were fundamental to the Christian
 Term fundamentalism is Christian in its origin

5. FUNDAMENTALISTS
 Members of the movement are known as
fundamentalists
 The most energetic group but least educated are
known as fundamentalists. (Wikipedia).

6. SOURCE OF THE FUNDAMENTALISM
 Religious issue is the source of fundamentalism
 These rules cannot be changed
 People are afraid to oppose the fundamentalists

7. BELIEFS OF THE FUNDAMENTALIST
GROUPS
 There beliefs are based upon the divine and
revealed texts,
 These texts are considered to be the perfect and
cannot be changed.
 Members reject all other beliefs and religion
except their own.

8. HISTORY ABOUT THE FUNDAMENTALISM
 Religious fundamentalism becoming the part of
the government
 Greater potential of harm.

9. PURPOSE OF RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM
 Usually occur in all Religions
 Ways of life should be according to the rules as
prescribed by God
 State should be subservient to God

10. DIFFERENT TYPES
 Islamic fundamentalism
 Hindu fundamentalism
 Jews fundamentalism
 Christian fundamentalism

11. ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM
 Links the spiritual world to the temporal world
and provide guidance regarding religion and life
 Islamist movements like Hamas and Islamic
Jihad
 Dec 1993 Hamas carried out a brutal kidnapping
 In the same week Hamas carried out the killings
and brought their terrorist activities to a new
peak

12. CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM
 In late 19th and early 20th century Christian
 Its main purpose was to reaffirm older beliefs of
protestant Christianity and defend them against
the challenges of the Darwinism
 Islamic and Christian Fundamentalist don’t like
to be placed in the same category as Islamists
saw no difference b/w the fundamentalists and
non- fundamentalist group

13. HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM
 Recent phenomena in India was the rise of the
Hindu Fundamentalism and it lead to the
political mobilization against Muslims
 Shiv Sena founded in 1996 originally to express
Hindu Fundamentalism
 Dec 1992 Hindu Fundamentalists destroyed the
450 year old Babri Mosque

14. EFFECTS
 Terrorist activities and violence spread
throughout the Middle East and Asia
 Present a genuine danger to the stability of the
government
 They are in tireless struggle to subvert the
government authority by exploiting the
democratic process through the terrorism

15.  Some people thinks that there is a mysterious
and unbelievable genetic revolution that they are
not afraid of anything.
 Madrassas or religious schools are now teaching
fundamentalist Islamist view and new meaning
of Jihad
 Established a new standard for violence and
terrorism from kidnapping, hijacking and
bombing

16. SOME COMMON THINGS
 Fear is common denominator among them
 They fear change, modernization and loss of their
influence
 They fear that young will be distracted from their
paths
 Use of Holy Places for material and physical
gratification

17.  Especially fear the education if it undermine the
teaching of the religion
 They also fear the future they cant control
 Fear of media and its abilities.

18. CONCLUSION
 Some says it the death of the capitalism
 Religious fundamentalism is a threat to our
society
 Religions never ask for war or killing except in
case of self defense