TOWARD A SPIRITUAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF FUNDAMENTALISM
Keywords:
Fundamentalism, Spirituality, Ideology, Formalism, Phenomenology, ReligionAbstract
This essay is a phenomenogical approach of some of the foundations of the fundamentalist self. It is an attempt at considering the ways in which fundamentalism crystallizes a moving away from the “cumulative tradition” and religious intellectual and spiritual culture prevalent in all religious civilizations. In conjunction with this divorce from nurturing tradition the relationship between formalism, the religious construction of identity and the ideologization of the religious are explored with a view to unveil the confusion between the truth and the mould of truth which, the author argues, is one of the main keys for understanding fundamentalism. The essay also provides insights into a contextualization of fundamentalism within the framework of secular culture and post-religious spirituality.
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