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TheFundamentalism Project was an international scholarly investigation of conservative religious movements throughout the world, funded by theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences. The project began in 1987 and was directed by Academy membersMartin E. Marty of theUniversity of Chicago Divinity School andR. Scott Appleby of theUniversity of Notre Dame; it concluded in 1995. The understanding offundamentalismframing the project was considered controversial, though even scholars with criticism of the assumptions upon which the project was based pointed to a great deal of usefulempirical information to be found in the publications that had grown out of the project.[citation needed]
According to The Academy in 1996:
The information and analysis produced by this study continue to inform the public agenda as theUnited States struggles to deal with the impact ofreligious fundamentalism oninternational security in the twenty-first century.[1]
Adefinition of fundamentalism given by theEncyclopedia Britannica online states:
type[s] of conservative religious movement[s] characterized by the advocacy of strict conformity tosacred texts.[2]
WhereasThe Fundamentalism Project (1991–95)
viewed fundamentalism primarily as the militant rejection ofsecularmodernity.[2]
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