Word: fundamentalistism
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Others are turning to fundamentalist churches like the Southern Baptist Convention. New York Rabbi Balfour Brickner explains: "People are desperately looking for something to cling to when all other models and molds have been shattered." Still others seek relief in the occult. "Magic and the occult can explain the unanswerable and give the person a sense of control," says Drexel Institute Sociologist Barbara Hornum...
...Sadat pointedly occupied a central seat at a tumultuous meeting in Cairo last year, where Egyptian women confronted Libya's Muammar Gaddafi to rebut his arguments for political union between the two countries. If Gaddafi imposed his fundamentalist Islamic views on such a merger, they shouted scornfully, it would force them all back to the harem, and they refused...
...information center for the Children of God today is London. But Leader Moses David stays as elusive as Howard Hughes, making contact with the members only in his weekly epistles called "Mo Letters" and through what might be described as fundamentalist pornography. Berg's poem Mountin' Maid, for instance, is 300 lines of awful doggerel urging women to bare their breasts. Sample line: Can't we leave those summits bare Without all that underwear...
...contrast, Gaddafi, 31, is a fundamentalist Moslem zealot, who scrupulously observes the Ramadan fast. Since coming to power in a 1969 coup, he has revived such early Islamic practices as amputating the hands of thieves and the public stoning of adulterers. He has made it illegal for foreigners as well as Libyans to drink liquor. The most consistently bellicose of Arab leaders, he has urged a holy war to exterminate Israel...
...Some fundamentalist Christian critics were less easy to appease, especially when 43 Roman Catholic dioceses joined Key 73. The fundamentalists charged that the campaign was sacrificing important doctrinal distinctions for the sake of a watered-down Gospel. Its defenders counter that the basic Christian message is difficult enough to sell without ecclesiastical infighting...