General rules of fundamentalism

Bruce Lawrence, of The Religious Movements Homepage Project, listed the following 5 ‘family resemblances as the general attributes of fundamentalism:

1. Fundamentalists are advocates of a minority viewpoint. They see themselves as a righteous remnant. Even when they are numerically a majority, they perceive themselves as a minority.

2. They are oppositional and confrontational towards both secularists and “wayward” religious followers.

3. They are secondary level male elites led invariably by charismatic males.

4. Fundamentalists generate their own technical vocabulary.

5. Fundamentalism has historical antecedents, but no ideological precursor.

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