Word: fundamentalistism
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...reflects a greater rightward movement of the church since Pope Benedict XVI’s election four years ago. While the Pope has made it a priority of his office to heal the schisms within the church, in doing so he has also brought an increased focus on fundamentalist beliefs and hostility toward other religions back to the Catholic Church. His desire to reunite the modern Roman Catholic Church with several more conservative factions, such as the Society of St. Pius X, of which Williamson is a member, along with his steadfast condemnation of birth control and homosexuality, reveals...
...supports Israel--a list unlikely to be welcomed by any administration in Washington. "If we accept that the U.S. interferes in the Middle East, then Iran is entitled to interfere in these issues according to its power," Atrianfar says. And that's from a moderate. For their part, some fundamentalist politicians think negotiating with the U.S. is pointless because, in their view, all American politicians are beholden to the Israeli lobby. "The difference between Republicans and Democrats is like the difference between Pepsi and Coke," says Member of Parliament Bijan Nobaveh, who spent five years in New York City...
...nineteenth century, many who believed in a literal and inerrant interpretation of Scripture fought for an agenda of social progress, including the abolition of slavery and women’s equality. But ever since the late 1970s—when the IRS declined to grant tax-free status to fundamentalist Bob Jones University—many evangelical leaders have become increasingly conservative in their political demands. As a result, in recent years, “religious” has become synonymous with the aims of a few influential leaders in the Republican Party...
Made up of as many as 1,000 adherents of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, Bountiful has been home to clans of polygamists since the arrival in the late 1940s of the homestead's founder, Harold Blackmore, who - according to one account - was drawn to the valley after envisioning it in a dream. Blackmore was part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which was expelled from mainstream Mormonism in the 1930s. For generations, local farmers co-existed with the polygamists of Bountiful. But this relationship, based on the country tenet "live and let live," grew increasingly...
...press statement on Thursday after he and Oler had been conditionally released from jail. "Tens of thousands of polygamists among many different cultures are hiding in plain sight all across Canada. They are known by their neighbors, policemen, legislators and media just as we are ... But they are not fundamentalist Mormons. To us, this is about religious persecution...