What is Fundamentalism: Episode #77

100+ is an overview of 100 of the most important people events and ideas of the last 2000 years. This is a survey of the forces and factors that have shaped today's world, western civilization, the Christian faith and you.

In today's lecture we will be focusing on fundamentalism, a many faceted term and movement. We will consider it mostly as the early 20th century movement that emerges as a push back against modernity, but we will also note that it expands in a number of different directions since then. Most notably, when Martin Marty launched the fundamentalism project in 1987, which began to track the illiberal movements of all types of groups, both religious and political.