RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM IN ASIA

Abstract

Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilization and the Remaking of World Order' places before the humanity the challenge of religion in the century ahead of us. According to him there will be three civilization emerging at the end of this century, they are the Western civilization, the Islamic civilization and the Chinic or Chinese civilization. He also predicts violent clashes among the three and there will be more bloodshed in the name of religion and God. The above is a dangerous prediction but at the same time the increasing communal tension among various religions is on the increase. The Asian continent, the birthplace of almost of all the major religions of the Word, is faced with the growing religious fundamentalism and communal clashes.