I sketch a philosophical program called ‘Empirical Fundamentalism,’ whose signature feature is the extensive use of a distinction between fundamental and derivative reality. Within the framework of Empirical Fundamentalism, derivative reality is treated as an abstraction from fundamental reality. I show how one can understand reduction and supervenience in terms of abstraction, and then I apply...

This study explored how religious fundamentalism related to irrational beliefs and primitive defense mechanisms. We also explored how the personality factors of openness to experience and neuroticism moderated these relations. Participants (N = 120) were recruited in an urban area from a Northeastern university, a psychotherapy center, and through Internet advertising. The results demonstrated ...

Teacher-education students attending a state university in the Southeastern United States responded to measures of Christian conservatism (theological fundamentalism and political evangelicalism) and sociopolitical values (e.g., nationalism, internationalism, patriotism, respect for civil liberties, and tolerance of dissent). Most of the measures demonstrated adequate internal consistency. Alth...


 This study aims to evaluate the levels of SMPN 1 Ambulu Jember ( Junior High School Ambulu, Regency) students’ obedience authority, ascertain religious fundamentalism students, and determine whether affects authority. is quantitative predictive research, employing descriptive analysis linear regression on population students. The subjects were 139 chosen using proportional random samplin...

Given the increasing influence of religious fundamentalism on politics (e.g. the Christian right in the United States or the Muslim fundamentalism associated with Al Qaeda), the question of how we can conceive of law and order, or society itself, without employing repressive ideals becomes more urgent. We need a way of conceptualizing the origin and process of idealization (which is necessary f...

The article is devoted to the problem of fundamentalism and crisis education system in Russia. authors demonstrate subjective perception either as a public institution general or specific historical circumstances. study aims establish refute existence fundamentalist tendencies contemporary Russian educational discourse, well identify validity using term “fundamentalism” with regard philosophy p...

Abstract This article combines two things: it explores how one should undertake the project of defining ‘fundamentalism’ and, based on ensuing desiderata, actually provides such a definition. After few preliminary comments and value it, five goals definitions are distinguished elucidated: accuracy, precision, fairness, clarity, fecundity. that, various kinds their interrelations spelled out. Fi...