Christian fundamentalism
A living tradition within Protestantism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Christian fundamentalism is a living tradition within Protestantism. Also written fundamentalism.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. A movement in American Protestantism arising in the late 19th and early 20th centuries around biblical literalism and a defined set of doctrines including the virgin birth and the physical resurrection. Britannica records that it was pushed to the fringe by the newer evangelical movement but continued to grow. No founding year is given.
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Citation
English
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John Shaqi. “Christian fundamentalism.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-christian-fundamentalism.
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.