He was a religious moderate in a nation that had become infected with religious fundamentalism.
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The general has declared that battling the twin foes of ethnic separatism and religious fundamentalism will remain a priority.
And while a person's religion is clearly a cultural attribute, there is a strong genetic component to religious fundamentalism.
She says that, unlike some other Muslim countries, Iraq does not have a problem with religious fundamentalism and the madrassa schools.
Lewis saw himself as a defender of decency, respect for law and reason against a tide of religious fundamentalism and extreme nationalism.
Their sendup of religious fundamentalism is painted in broad acrylic strokes: shocking enough to elicit laughs but not deep enough to generate understanding.
Some other studies have made sceptics' eyebrows rise because they appear to show that political conservatism and religious fundamentalism have a genetic basis.
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Meanwhile, religious fundamentalism has been on the rise, with more women wearing the veil, and for the past few years even university classes have been segregated by sex.
In his principal address, Professor Devetak said that problems of co-operation and development in the Mediterranean are intermingled with religious fundamentalism and cultural misperceptions: "ethnic or religious connotation is given to problems that have nothing to do with ethnicity or religion".
It describes the problems that fundamentalism creates for a country founded on religious tolerance: a court threw out the conviction of one of the brothers, on the grounds that anyone who argued that he answered to the laws of God and not of man was incompetent to stand trial.
Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett and Christopher Hitchens are in the new vanguard of authors articulating atheism (Mr Harris thinks that people who are more moderate in their religion still do harm through a religious habit of mind that is no less irrational than fundamentalism).
Many young Turks are more religious than their parents, fuelling fears of a spread of fundamentalism.
The first I have called "fundamentalism, " and it represents both a form of religious faith and a new variety of politics to represent it.
Catholicism is also a strong cultural influence in Africa's continuing search for answers to the challenges of poverty, diseases, ethnic and religious conflicts, wars, political and economic problems, radical Islamic fundamentalism, and how to mitigate the effects of climate change and natural disasters.
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