Fundamentalisms observed / edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby ; a study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

North American protestant fundamentalism / Nancy T. Ammerman -- Roman Catholic traditionalism and activist conservatism in the United States / William D. Dinges and James Hitchcock -- Protestant fundamentalism in Latin America / Pablo A. Deiros -- Religious fundamentalism and religious Jews : the case of the Haredim / Samuel C. Heilman and Menachem Friedman -- Jewish Zionist fundamentalism : the bloc of the faithful in Israel (Gush Emunim) / Gideon Aran -- Fundamentalism in the Sunni Arab World : Egypt and the Sudan / John O. Voll -- Activist Shiʻism in Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon / Abdulaziz A. Sachedina. aIslamic fundamentalism in South Asia : the Jamaat-i-Islami and the Tablighi Jamaat / Mumtaz Ahmad -- Organized Hinduisms : from Vedic truth to Hindu nation / Daniel Gold -- The double-edged sword : fundamentalism and the Sikh religious tradition / T.N. Madan -- Fundamentalistic movements in Theravada Buddhism / Donald K. Swearer -- Islamic resurgence in Malaysia in Indonesia / Manning Nash -- The search for roots in industrial East Asia : the case of the Confucian revival / Tu Wei-ming -- Fundamentalism in Japan : religious and political / Winston Davis -- An interim report on a hypothetical family / Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby.

This volume is an encyclopedic introduction to movements of religious reaction in the twentieth century. The fourteen chapters are thematically linked by a common set of concerns: the social, political, cultural, and religious contexts in which these movements were born the particular world-views, systems of thought, and beliefs that govern each movement the ways in which leaders and group members make sense of and respond to the challenges of the modern, postcolonial era in world history.