Introduction
The term fundamentalism and its accompanying term fundamentalist mindset are often cited to connote a strict adherence to theological texts and doctrines often in opposition to the rise of modern science, evolving theological hermeneutics, and the dangers of secular reconstruction of societal foundations and cultural ideologies. In a narrow sense, fundamentalism denotes a movement that began in the United States, emerging among conservative Presbyterian theologians at Princeton Theological Seminary in the late nineteenth century, spreading among other religious denominations in the first decades of the twentieth century. The first use of the term fundamentalism came into common usage in the 1920s with the publication of a series of pamphlets called The Fundamentals, which appeared between 1910 and 1915, and later through a set of conferences sponsored by the World’s Christian Fundamentals Association in 1919 (Marsden, 1980). Drawing from the American millenarian sects of...
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Barbre, C. (2014). Fundamentalist Mindset. In: Teo, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5583-7_564
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