ISBN: 0972549617
Author: Kimberly Blaker
Language: English
Publisher: New Boston Books (February 1, 2003)
Pages: 288
Category: World
Subcategory: History
Rating: 4.4
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This book is an encyclopedic indictment of the extreme Christian right, but. can be applied to any extremist belief system.
This book is an encyclopedic indictment of the extreme Christian right, but. to an unabashedly apostolic theocracy.
The Fundamentals of Extremism book. Blaker's carefully documented and compelling narrative exposes the full spectrum of issues on the Christian fundamentalist agenda
The Fundamentals of Extremism book. Blaker's carefully documented and compelling narrative exposes the full spectrum of issues on the Christian fundamentalist agenda. Rarely have these issues been examined so thoroughly. At least one has never been examined and exposed nationally. The Fundamentals of Extremism is an absorbing exposE. It urges mainstream Americans to recognize and oppose the encroachment of Christian fundamentalism on our secular society.
Kimberly Blaker’s The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America is not just another book on the Religious Right. John Shelby Spong, bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism calls Blaker’s book a thorough analysis of a present crisis
Kimberly Blaker’s The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America is not just another book on the Religious Right. John Shelby Spong, bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism calls Blaker’s book a thorough analysis of a present crisis. Blaker’s carefully documented and compelling narrative exposes the full spectrum of issues on the Christian fundamentalist agenda.
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Or at least, that’s the argument laid out by Kimberly Blaker in her 2003 book, The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America. Conflating leaders like James Dobson of Focus on the Family with Islamic fundamentalists, Blaker argued that America’s traditionalist Christians also seek to indoctrinate youth with oppressive views of women, minorities, and LGBT persons through mind-control tactics and intimidation.
Kimberly Blaker, Edward M Buckner, Edwin Frederick Kagin. The politics, educational policies, and social values perpetuated by Christian fundamentalists are exposed in this critical perspective on the religious right's role in American society. Statistics and studies of the movement are offered that provide insight into the causes and characteristics of fundamentalism and its effects on minority groups including women, children, African Americans, gays, and lesbians.
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A Humanist Manifesto. Galvanized by the January 22, 1973 US Supreme Court case guaranteeing a woman's right to choose - Roe v. com/) - Christian fundamentalists embarked on a 30-year long crusade that has led them to violent actions, infiltration of local governments and organizations, domination of school boards all.
Kimberly Blaker's The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America is a book-length expose of the menace of the Christian Taliban (not under that name). Faith and homosexuality. In Afghanistan under the Taliban, the official punishment for homosexuality was execution, by the tasteful method of burial alive under a wall pushed over on top of the victim. The 'crime' itself being a private act, performed by consenting adults who were doing nobody else any harm, we again have here the classic hallmark of religious absolutism. My own country has no right to be smug.
On September 11, 2001, Americans witnessed horrific carnage inspired by religious extremism. We saw religious fundamentalists will stop at nothing to reign terror on those they regard as their enemies. In our response, we began to focus on the oppressive treatment of women and children in other parts of the world where religious fundamentalism rules. But we failed to acknowledge the impact and similarities ofChristian fundamentalism.
Even now, most Americans fail to realize the magnitude of problems posed by our own country’s Christian fundamentalism and Religious Right. We regard such dogmatism as odd but non-threatening. We reason, “Why should we be concerned, so long as it doesn’t affect us?”
But the problem does affect all of us. AsThe Fundamentals of Extremismreveals, it affects those women and children in Christian fundamentalist homes who suffer severe emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. It affects minorities, particularly African-Americans, and gays and lesbians.
Equally disconcerting, the problem affects adherents of non-fundamentalist faiths. It also affects those with no religious beliefs who are prime targets of religious fundamentalists’ prejudicial attitudes. Even mainstream Christians whose tenets differ from those of conservative Christianity are violators of the will of God who must reform. American Christian fundamentalists are working to change the laws of our land. Their goal is to force all Americans to conform to their strict religious ideologies.
Kimberly Blaker’sThe Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in Americais not just another book on the Religious Right. John Shelby Spong,bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism calls Blaker’s book “a thorough analysis of a present crisis.” In this stark and troubling account of the Religious Right’s vision for America, readers will come face-to-face with Christian fundamentalist goals and tactics that have long been underway. Blaker’s carefully documented and compelling narrative exposes the full spectrum of issues on the Christian fundamentalist agenda. Rarely have these issues been examined so thoroughly. At least one has never been examined and exposed nationally.
The Fundamentals of Extremismis anabsorbing exposé. It urges mainstream Americans to recognize and oppose the encroachment of Christian fundamentalism on our secular society. It’s a stirring appeal for religious freedom and the protection of civil liberties for all—including for the extremists who would deny such rights to others.
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