A New Christian Fundamentalism

Abstract

One of the most used terms in the last decade is “fundamentalism”, permanently associated with
Islamic religion and terrorism. Encyclopedia Britannica defines fundamentalism as a type of militant-conservative religious movement, characterized by promoting strict conformation to the holy gospel. Initially
used exclusively connected to American protestants who, at the end of the 19th century insisted over Bible’s
infallibility, as a reaction to theological modernism, which was aiming to reshape traditional Christian
believes in order to accept the new facts that social and natural sciences had discover, especially the
evolutionist theory, the term “fundamentalism” was mostly used starting the end of the 20th century, referring
to a large variety of religious movements.