Word: fundamentalistism
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Mainstream evangelism is on the rise nationwide. Evangelistic Christian publications are increasing in prominence and circulation. Christian fellowships are growing on campuses across the nation, and many Protestants are moving from fundamentalist churches to more moderate evangelical faiths...
...Mary Beth Moehl, a Southern Baptist minister and a member of the Harvard-Radcliffe United Ministry, says evangelical methods as she sees them should consist of personal interaction, especially sermons in local churches. Moehl criticizes the fundamentalist churches for their methods of television evangelism, saying that the "electronic church" draws people away from localized religion. Many of the misconceptions about mainstream evangelism stem from a confusion of theological conservatism--the intensive concentration on the Bible as the source of religious views and sermons--with fundamentalism. Moehl says. While she is not sure of the historical origins of this tendency...
Even more threatening, from the point of view of such conservative gulf states as Saudi Arabia, are Iran's stepped-up efforts to export its particular brand of Islamic revolution. There is abundant evidence that Tehran believes that the war with Iraq offers a unique opportunity for fomenting fundamentalist coups d'étât in other Muslim states. A recent appeal for volunteers issued by the Islamic Guards called on Iranians to help enable "the Islamic revolution to open the gates of freedom to the oppressed peoples of the region." Last December police in the tiny, prosperous...
...issue arose out of the contention by some fundamentalist Christian institutions, including Bob Jones University of Greenville, S.C., that the IRS policy of denying tax exemptions because of racial discrimination violated their freedom of religion. Their segregationist policies, they claimed, were grounded in their interpretation of the Bible. But that constitutional argument, which had been rejected by a federal appeals court, was made moot by the Administration's decision to settle the case by revoking a twelve-year-old IRS rule against tax exemptions for schools that discriminate racially. If allowed to stand, the new policy would permit such...
Since 1971 the Internal Revenue Service has sought to withhold the benefits of tax exemption from the private white academies that were founded in the South and elsewhere to evade integration. Other schools that discriminated for religious reasons also got socked by the IRS. Two of them, the fundamentalist Bob Jones University in South Carolina and North Carolina's Goldsboro Christian Schools, challenged the action as an infringement of their First Amendment right to freedom of religion. When they went to the Supreme Court, they were opposed at first by the Reagan Justice Department. Then came word, just before...