Gabriel A. Almod, R. Scott Appleby, and Emmanuel Sivan (University of Chicago, 2003).

Why do fundamentalist movements turn violent? Are fundamentalisms a global threat to human rights, security, and democratic forms of government? What is the future of fundamentalism? To answer questions like these, this book draws on the results of the Fundamentalism Project, a decade-long interdisciplinary study of antimodernist, antisecular militant religious movements on five continents and within seven world religious traditions. The authors analyze the various social structures, cultural contexts, and political environments in which fundamentalist movements have emerged around the world. Through a vividly detailed portrait of the cultures that nourish such movements, the authors open a window onto different modes of fundamentalism and identify the kinds of historical events that can trigger them.

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