Word: fundamentalistism
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Even when judged by the sedate standards of the resort town of Cape May, on the southern tip of New Jersey, the 3,000 conventioners were an extraordinary crew. The delegates to the Seventh World Congress of the fundamentalist International Council of Christian Churches did not drink, nor did they smoke; they spent most of their time browsing through Scriptures and savoring the special satisfactions of zealous dissent...
...spectaculars as Lima's festival honoring Our Lord of the Miracles, but grandmothers and schoolchildren are often about the only worshipers at Sunday Mass in the ancient, silent churches. In Brazil, perhaps 25 million people are devotees of a voodoo cult called macumba. Across the continent, the zealous, fundamentalist Pentecostal sects constitute the fastest-growing faith...
...days when student dissent took milder forms than it does now and the Death of God had not yet been widely announced, small groups of seminarians from fundamentalist Wheaton College used to appear at the edge of a 40-acre estate on the outskirts of Wheaton, Ill. They would kneel briefly in prayer and then scurry nervously away. Thirty years ago, it was an act that took courage: the estate had become headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America, a mysterious non-Christian movement often suspected of being more occult than cult. Praying for the souls of the benighted Theosophists...
...called "charismatic gifts"-prophecy, spiritual healing and glossolalia, or speaking in tongues-have long been characteristic of the zealous, fundamentalist Pentecostal sects. Increasingly, though, these unusual outpourings of spiritual feeling can be found in mainstream Protestant and even Roman Catholic congregations-and some church leaders are concerned about it. The 1968 General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church ordered a special study of the spread of glossolalia. This month an ecumenical assembly of 120 churchmen met at Roman Catholic Dayton University in Ohio to discuss the movement...
...urban areas, particularly in the North, Negro churches-like their white counterparts-have been suffering from a steady erosion of influence. One problem is that college-educated Negroes, as they gain in affluence, tend to abandon fundamentalist churches. Says Detroit N.A.A.C.P. Leader Robert Tindal, describing the Negro's Christian status ladder: "When you're poor, you're Baptist; when you advance slightly, you become a Methodist; when you arrive you're an Episcopalian." By comparison with King and other outspoken Southern pastors, the majority of Northern clergy have been much more passive in the struggle...