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- In religion, an emphasis on basic principles
- or articles of faith. Christian
- fundamentalism emerged in the USA just after
- World War I (as a reaction to theological
- modernism and the historical criticism of the
- Bible) and insisted on belief in the literal
- truth of everything in the Bible. Islamic
- fundamentalism insists on strict observance
- of Muslim Shari'a law. Christian adherents
- see the virgin birth, the physical
- resurrection of Jesus, the atonement, and the
- Bible miracles as fundamental to their faith.
- The movement soon became more belligerent,
- attempting to outlaw the teaching of
- evolution (as in Dayton, Tennessee, 1925) and
- replace it with creationism. In the 1950s a
- more moderate tendency broke off to form the
- evangelical movement, which claims to carry
- on the original intentions of Fundamentalism.
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