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Fundamentalism is probably the most important—and dangerous— social movement of our times.1 One of the most difficult political tasks we are facing today is how to fight and resist fundamentalist movements without allowing such a resistance to become a cover for racist attacks on the demonized “Other.”
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See Samuel C. Heilman & Menachem Friedman, Religious Fundamentalism and Religious Jews: The Case of the Haredim, in 1 THE FUNDAMENTALISM PROJECT: FUNDAMENTALISMS OBSERVED 197,197-99 (Martin E. Marty & R. Scott Appleby, eds.) (Chicago/London: The University of Chicago Press, paperback ed. 1994)
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Yuval-Davis, N. (1999). The Personal Is Political: Jewish Fundamentalism and Women’s Empowerment. In: Howland, C.W. (eds) Religious Fundamentalisms and the Human Rights of Women. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107380_4
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