Dr. Joyce A. Green wrote this paper to let us understand the origin and objective of fundamentalism and to insure the fact of not raising barriers into liberation.
According to her, culture, religion, nationalism and essentialism are means to fundamentalism. Most of the countries that have been colonized have strong probability to get into fundamentalism cause while they are colonized they get frustrated of losing their traditions & cultures that creates a reversed reaction which leads them to stick to their basic traditions .
At the same time Fundamentalism is a reaction of globalization. Fundamentalist movements have not been immune to external influences; they consider these rapid changes of societies cultures economies & politics as a threat of losing some of their origin principles. The indigenous culture under a colonial regime lives continually anxiously that their own existence is at risk. They are forced to play the role of defending their culture.
The writer warns the......
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