This report presents findings for the Intrinsic (IR) and Extrinsic (ER) religiousness scales from the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart. The scales were shown to be internally consistent, sufficiently distinct from the scales of the California Psychological Inventory and the Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire and unrelated to a number of measures of response style to justify treatin...

Abstract This article considers the existence of a distinctive form fundamentalism in northern-Irish province Ulster. It does so by examining Protestant minorities that grew significantly decades after Ulster revival 1859. These evangelical others are important because their members were more likely to have fundamentalist tendencies than those who belonged main churches. The existing scholarshi...

This essay, a version of which was presented as the 2022 Society for Textual Scholarship Presidential Address, considers state textual scholarship in light converging disasters our moment — human-induced climate change, resurgent xenophobia, religious fundamentalism, territorial warfare, violent racism, and humanistic academy under attack from both without within. After surveying important rece...

Internet-mediated interreligious relations could go in two directions: increasing the number of encountering with weakening process religious exclusivism and lead people to fundamentalism polarization. In Indonesian context, emergence Garis Lucu (Funny line) social media platforms allow a dialogical internet-mediated relation rather than monologue one. This opportunity especially works between ...

This paper examines the connection between people’s trust or cynicism in major U.S. institutions and their vote cast for President in the 2000 election. The absence of confidence and trust fuels cynicism, an attitude that may lead elites to exploit institutional resources and the public to withdraw their support from important institutions. We examined the 13 measures of confidence-trust in the...

This article is focused on some conditions in today’s world of globalized media, which are producing either an uncritical acquiescence or fright in Muslim societies as a result of the interaction between these societies and the contemporary Western powers that represent modernity and postmodernity on the global stage. The rise of fundamentalism, a tendency toward returning to the roots and stri...

This article argues that the association between institutionalization and strong epistemological, political, anthropological ontological objectivity leads to institutional fundamentalism in three basic problematic aspects for societal-cultural-institutional current dynamics: first, institution’s centralization monopolization of constitution, legitimation public foment creed, so institution beco...

What lessons can the study of fundamentalism and the psychology of religion teach the newer field of Radicalization and Involvement in Violent Extremism (RIVE)? Four lessons and an intervention are offered in this article: (1) Religion is a robust human experience and cultural product that adopts a defensive shape when its worldview is threatened. (2) This does not mean that all "fundamentalism...