RELIGST 3C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Religious Intolerance, Islamic Fundamentalism, Ijtihad

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 3C03
• Professor: Liyakat Takim

Document Summary

Term does not exist, idea amongst muslim does. Difficult to use the term in islam. Borrowed term - used in protestant christianity. Fundamentalism in christianity refers to conservatism, anti-modernist, liberal interpretation of. Used in america at the time; going back to the fundamentalism : darwinism at the time, biblical criticism, pointing out contradiction and differences with the bible themselves, reason cannot comprehend certain things such as trinity . Christians went back to the fundamentals of religion. Need to deconstruct fundamentalism from its historical context of 20th century american. Islam: fundamentalist see that secularism is a challenge; Secularism tries to marginalize religion; something on the margin, not central. Core-idealism - once islamic norm is applied, it will change and remove sociopolitical and moral problems. Going back to religion is a way to revolve against aspects of secularism and modernity the sufis and the shia"s: cocaco-lisation, values imported into the muslim world.