Modernity + Islam ~ Radicalism???

Posted by on January 26, 2005; This entry is filed under Uncategorized.
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Fundamentalism begins at home is an article which reviews the theories of a French sociologist. I don’t buy the whole thesis, primarily because there is so much complexity in decomposing a construct like “Islamic fundamentalism.” Nevertheless I think it is a step forward to acknowledge that “religions” or “ways of life” do not simply flow transparently from injunctions that exist in a holy book, rather, they are surface manifestations of a dynamic process of interpretation and reformulation shaped by many interacting variables in a constant state of flux. That is, Islamic fundamentalism is simply a metastable condition.

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