Fundamentalism

Terrorists need an audience. Media needs a story; this is how media misinterpretations on terrorism is born. The media’s role is no longer to inform but rather to control how the viewers react to the information provided. Media’s influence on the public’s sudden focus from sports and celebrities to the collapse of the most globally important twin towers is an example of how media shapes viewers interest and concern. As David L. Altheide credits mass media in promoting fear evermore since the…

To begin, Islamic fundamentalism is a movement that seeks Muslims to return to their traditional, religion-centered society with frequent support for the unification of church and state. On the other hand, the beliefs of Islamism say that foreign influences are to blame for…

Pope Francis Congressional Speech. This speech was given by Pope Francis to the United States Congress on September 24, 2015 in Washington D.C. Pope Francis is the 266th pope of the Roman Catholic Church and spoke about current topics relevant throughout the world to the United States Congress. He focused on the religious extremism, the refugee crisis, immigration, diplomacy, and the trading and sale of various weaponry. Pope Francis was able to do so through the use of anaphora, metaphors, and…

In Oreskes and Conway’s The Collapse of Western Civilization, the authors make the speculative, future perfect-tense assessment that positivism and market fundamentalism has led to the destruction of Western civilization in the twenty-first century. This assessment is critical of both the internal workings of science and how it operates among other social institutions. The critique of positivism depends on a flawed placement of science in society, and is inconsistent with the subsequent…

A man by the name of John Scopes (high school science teacher) taught the theory of evolution in class. Later, Scopes was charged with violating the Butler Act by teaching evolution in school. The outcome was almost unpredictable. Fundamentalism is a form of religion that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture. People from everywhere were upset that John Scopes went against the law of teaching evolution. This day and age people were just starting to become…

mass media and new inventions, and the social tension with women, blacks, and gangs. The new flow of immigrants was restricted and controlled due to the hysteria induced by the Red Scare with liberals challenging the nativists. The traditional fundamentalism in religion challenged modern values with the Ku Klux Klan, the Scopes trials, and exploring religion in the United States. The mass media of the decade contributed to the growth of affordable consumer…

Fundamentalism believed that the Bible was errorless and that it was a literal recount of historical events (Keene, 640). These Fundamentalists began a campaign that would end the teachings of evolution and solely teach ideas that agreed with the Bible. This…

viewpoints, as hardly any middle ground can be reached. The fundamentalist nature of the two political parties has stymied the country from reaching resolutions on abortion, or the right for women to choose. Wendell Berry argues against this strict fundamentalism in his essay, “God, Science, and Imagination”, where he discusses that reaching a balance between the two extremes of science and religion is important to eliminate the bigotry the world faces. Zadie…

During modern times many men and women have proposed the idea of living in peace, no war, no famine, no poverty. They have thrown out ideas of the “common good” and “human rights” that seem to elude societies all around the world. The common good refers to promoting a positive action that promotes society as a whole. Human rights refer to every human being, if they be wealth or poor to have the same rights as each other and that those rights can never be taken away, that every human soul is…

own type of fanatic political theology. The secular fundamentalism associated with the Revolution is still echoed today, as exemplified in the New Atheist Movement and the ever-increasing emphasis on laïcité (secularism) in modern France. There are two questions that must be addressed concerning the secular values of the Revolution in order to understand its modern day implications: What were the origins of the violence, terror, and fundamentalism used to combat orthodox religion and values…