Contesting fundamentalisms : ongoing adaptations to a changing environment

• 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
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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...