Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment

This paper makes a case for an instrumentalist and modernist logic to fundamentalism and argues that the environment frames fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is not new per se, but its form has evolved through time and varies in different contexts. I will show how fundamentalisms work as strategies of...

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Main Author:	Lim, Audrey Yueying
Other Authors:	Liow, Joseph Chin Yong
Format:	Theses and Dissertations
Published:	2008
Subjects:	DRNTU::Social sciences
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14287
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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-142872020-11-01T08:08:32Z Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment Lim, Audrey Yueying Liow, Joseph Chin Yong S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences This paper makes a case for an instrumentalist and modernist logic to fundamentalism and argues that the environment frames fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is not new per se, but its form has evolved through time and varies in different contexts. I will show how fundamentalisms work as strategies of adapting to the international system and how they employ various means to ensure their survival in the ongoing "war of fundamentalisms". Religious violence is thus a survival strategy that is used in this war, which is currently being fought between the hegemonic fundamentalism -Western modernity, and the other "peripheral fundamentalisms". Master of Science (Strategic Studies) 2008-11-13T09:16:39Z 2008-11-13T09:16:39Z 2005 2005 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/14287 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf
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spellingShingle	DRNTU::Social sciences Lim, Audrey Yueying Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment
description	This paper makes a case for an instrumentalist and modernist logic to fundamentalism and argues that the environment frames fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is not new per se, but its form has evolved through time and varies in different contexts. I will show how fundamentalisms work as strategies of adapting to the international system and how they employ various means to ensure their survival in the ongoing "war of fundamentalisms". Religious violence is thus a survival strategy that is used in this war, which is currently being fought between the hegemonic fundamentalism -Western modernity, and the other "peripheral fundamentalisms".
author2	Liow, Joseph Chin Yong
author_facet	Liow, Joseph Chin Yong Lim, Audrey Yueying
format	Theses and Dissertations
author	Lim, Audrey Yueying
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title	Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment
title_short	Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment
title_full	Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment
title_fullStr	Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment
title_full_unstemmed	Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment
title_sort	contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment
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Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment

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