The Fundamentalism Project was an international scholarly investigation of conservative religious movements throughout the world, funded by the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...
. The project began in 1987, directed by
Martin E. Marty
Martin Emil Marty (born on February 5, 1928) is an American Lutheran religious scholar who has written extensively on religion in the United States.
Early life and education
Marty was born on February 5, 1928, in West Point, Nebraska, and raised ...
and
R. Scott Appleby
Robert Scott Appleby (born 1956) is an American historian, focusing in global religion and its relationship to peace and conflict, integral human development, and comparative modern religion. He is a Professor of history at the University of Notr ...
, concluding in 1995. The understanding of
fundamentalism framing the project was considered controversial in some cases, though even those scholars with criticism of the assumptions upon which the project was based admit that there is a great deal of useful empirical information to be found in the publications that grew out of the project.
Volumes
*Volume 1: ''Fundamentalisms Observed'',
Marty/Appleby, (1991)
*Volume 2: ''Fundamentalisms and Society: Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education'', Marty/Appleby/Hardacre/Mendelsohn, (1993)
*Volume 3: ''Fundamentalisms and the State: Remaking Polities, Economies, and Militance'', Marty/Appleby/Garvey/Kuran, (1993)
*Volume 4: ''Accounting for Fundamentalisms: The Dynamic Character of Movements'', Marty/Appleby/Ammerman/Frykenberg/Heilman/Piscatori, (1994)
*Volume 5: ''Fundamentalisms Comprehended'', Marty/Appleby, (1995)
References
*Marty, Martin E.
"Fundamentalism as a Social Phenomenon." ''
Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences'' 42 (November 1988): 15-29.
*Marty, Martin E. "Fundamentalism Reborn: Faith and Fanaticism." ''
Saturday Review''. May 1980, 37-42.
*Marty, Martin E
"Too Bad We're So Relevant: The Fundamentalism Project Projected" ''The Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences'' 49 (March 1996): 22-38.
*Marty, Martin E., ''The Glory and the Power: The Fundamentalist Challenge to the Modern World''. Boston: Beacon, 1992.
External links
University of Chicago Press
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Religious fundamentalism