Sociology I · 10 marks · 150 words

Religious fundamentalism is a challenge to the truth of other religions. Examine.

Answered by 6 toppers · CSE 2025

Syllabus: Religion and Society: (a) Sociological theories of religion. (b) Types of religious practices: animism, monism, pluralism, sects, cults. (c) Religion in modern society: religion and science, secularization, religious revivalism, fundamentalism.

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RajeshwariAIR 2 · CSE 2025 · 137 wordsTheir whole copy

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Religious fundamentalism is the concept of infallibility of religious scripts and literature. This leads to divide in society as it fuels the intolerance towards other religion.

Religious fundamentalism → challenge to truth of other religions :

→ Religious fundamentalism stick on to the truth of one's own religion and reject others.

→ Religious fundamentalism leads to religious revivalism; which in its Tedious form affect the values and truth of other religions.

eg Taliban Government in Afghanistan hold extreme religious fundamentalism which result in forceful conversions or persecutions of other religions.

→ Religious fundamentalism lead to millenarian movements which may act against secularisation of society. Anti-secularism tendency affects the truth of other religion.

→ Religious fundamentalism lead to radicalisation & resacralisation of a religion.

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Religious fundamentalism expresses hatred towards other religions truth thereby a challenge in modern democracies.

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