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Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism. From Secular to Sacred Psychosocial & Socioeconomic Perspective What Is To Be Done? By Tahir M. Qazi, MD. History & Definition. Protestants Conference in Niagara Falls, NY Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial) 1925 Theory of Natural Selection Under Fire

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Fundamentalism

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  1. Fundamentalism From Secular to Sacred Psychosocial & Socioeconomic Perspective What Is To Be Done? By Tahir M. Qazi, MD

  2. History & Definition • Protestants Conference in Niagara Falls, NY • Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial) 1925 • Theory of Natural Selection Under Fire • Ideology & Use of Violent/Non-violent means

  3. Fundamentalism As a Set of Values

  4. Modes of Human Thinking & Corresponding Philosophic Conceptions Dogmatic Semi-Dogmatic Rationalist Fundamentalism ?? Humanism/Secularism

  5. Fundamentalism As a Set of Values • Self Righteousness • Narcissism • Proselytizing • Dogmatic Thinking

  6. An Unsocialized Horror • Destructive of Property • Unable to Share Possessions • Insistent & Demanding for Gratification • Violent & Uninhibited in Display of Feelings • Fundamentalist • Militant Fundamentalist • None of the Above

  7. Personality Theories are NOT appropriate for understanding fundamentalism Psycho-social Models hold better promise For understanding Fundamentalism

  8. Religious Fundamentalism Scale Individual Behavior Sociopolitical Behavior • Authoritarian Submission • Sanctioned Aggression • Commitment to Conventions Altemeyers; Page 380

  9. Proselytizing Fundamentalist Parents to a teenager: S/he had been raised in a non-religious Family. Thinking to be religious. What would you advise? Atheist Parents to a teenager: S/he had been raised in a religious Family. Thinking to become an atheist. What would you advise?

  10. 98% religious parents Try to lead teen to their faith ________________________ 18% Atheist Parents Try to lead teen to their atheism 80% Atheist Parents Responded: “They would encourage the teen to search among Alternatives beliefs and decide for yourself”

  11. Atheists are not insecure • Atheists are open to modern changes Atheistic Fundamentalism is not a valid construct

  12. Fundamentalism is an Attitude Towards Belief (Ideology) Role of Social Conditions in Determination of Behavior Learned Behavior

  13. Fundamentalism & Violence Protestant fundamentalists in the US fought for their ideology in the court of law Taliban in Afghanistan resorted to violence Why?

  14. Japan vs Afghanistan

  15. Fundamentalist Values vs Secular Values

  16. Self Expression • Gender Relations • Homosexuality • Civil Liberties • Political Structure

  17. Cultural Theorists: Max Weber to Sam Huntington “Cultural Values have enduring and Autonomous influence on the society” Economic Theorists: Karl Marx to Daniel Bell “Socioeconomic development brings pervasive changes in the society”

  18. Sequence of Human Development Existential Security Economic Change Self-Expression Values Cultural Change Democratic Institutions Political Change Modernism, Cultural Change & Democracy: Page 134

  19. Value Change Fundamentalism to Secularism? Existential security Economic Justice Education

  20. Thank You

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