Date of Award
8-3-2006
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Religious Studies
First Advisor
Christopher White - Chair
Second Advisor
Jon Herman
Third Advisor
John Iskander
Abstract
This paper addresses the conception that fundamentalisms are “anti-modern.” I propose that this view is a mischaracterization of fundamentalisms. I argue that an understanding of fundamentalisms would be better served by forgoing this “anti-modern” characterization and instead approaching fundamentalisms from the perspective that they are wholly modern phenomenon. In my analysis I use the writings and speeches of Pat Robertson as examples of the modern nature of America Fundamentalism in four areas. The first area examines how the Enlightenment influenced Fundamentalism’s development of inerrantism. The second area examines Fundamentalism’s prophetic interpretation. The third area examines the political nature of Fundamentalism. The fourth area examines Pat Robertson’s rhetoric to reveal that he reflects philosophically modern thought and rejects postmodernism.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1062065
Recommended Citation
Hoffmeister, Andrew Charles, "Fundamentalism and Modernity: A Critique of the "Anti-Modern" Conception of Fundamentalism." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2006.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1062065