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Secular Fundamentalism:
A Bibliography
Recently, a secularist friend, wrote/claimed in a message to Shetubondhon that "There is NO SUCH thing as secular fundamentalism." [emphasis is mine; http://www.egroups.com/message/Shetubondhon/1412]. In response to it I wrote a message "Secularism (1): Secular Fundamentalism" [http://www.egroups.com/message/Shetubondhon/1439]. Also, as a follow up, I prepared the following bibliography that contains either reference to or discussion - extensive or tangential - about Secular Fundamentalism. These works either directly deal with the topic of Secular Fundamentalism or refers to Secular Fundamentalism, usually in a negative, disapproving sense. Not all the works are available online. The works in which Secular Fundamentalism as a terminology appears include leading academic journals:
British Journal of Sociology of Education
Columbia Law Review
Journal of Law and Religion
Michigan Law Review
Yale Law Journal
The field or context where the terminology has been used is as varied as the following:Rationalism, philosophy, Law, Religion, Sociology, Education, Bioethics, Political Science, Cultural Studies - just to name a few.
1. Reason Magazine, the publication of the Reason Foundation (http://www.reason.org/), a national research and education organization that explores and promotes public policies based on rationality and freedom.
Secular Fundamentalism by Edith Efron (November, 1977, Reason Magazine)
http://www.dailyobjectivist.com/Connect/secularfundamentalism.asp
2. 'Secular Fundamentalism', Paul Campose, Columbia Law Review 94, 1994, 1825. http://www.stms.f2s.com/footnotes4.htm3. Dan Conkle, "Secular Fundamentalism", Journal of Law and Religion (published by Hamline University) - Vol. 12, No. 2, at pp. 337-70, (1995-96)
4. Peter Kelly; Christopher Hickey; Richard Tinning, "Educational truth telling in a more reflexive modernity", British Journal of Sociology of Education:, Vol. 21 No. 1; p. 111-122, 03/01/2000 http://library.northernlight.com/AA20000426010004430.html?cb=0&sc=0#doc
5. George, Robert P., "Public reason and political conflict: abortion and homosexuality". Yale Law Journal, p. 2475-2504, 06/1997
http://library.northernlight.com/PC19970927560003865.html?cb=0&sc=0#doc6. Furman, Jesse. Political illiberalism: the paradox of disenfranchisement and the ambivalences of Rawlsian justice. Yale Law Journal, 1/1997, pp. 1197-1231
http://library.northernlight.com/PC19970926120001342.html?cb=0&sc=0#doc7. Campos, Paul F., "The chaotic pseudotext." Michigan Law Review, 06/1996, p. 2178-2228.
8. Shaping the Future: Challenges and Responsibilities
Robert Crane
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/m/mitmsa/www/NewSite/libstuff/Crane/cover.htm
The author is founder and coordinator of the Center for Civilization Renewal. After earning a J.D. in comparative legal systems in 1959 from Harvard Law School and founding the Harvard International Law Journal as the first president of the Harvard International Law Society, he worked for a decade in Washington think-tanks. In 1962, he co-founded the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Read chapter 3; Segment 3 "Developing a New World Vision"
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/activity/m/mitmsa/www/NewSite/libstuff/Crane/Chap3.htm9. Bunnell release deserves faculty investigation
Stanford Daily
http://daily.stanford.org/Daily98-99/1-28-1999/opinions/OPSletters28.html
10. Book Review: Brave New Worlds: Genetics and the Human Experience by Bryan Appleyard (HarperCollins £16.99 pp188)
Karen Armstrong http://data.free.de/gen.free.de/snowball/1999/Jan/msg00051.html11. "The Triumph of Autonomy in American Bioethics: A Sociological View" in Raymond DeVries and Janardan Subedi (eds.), Bioethics and Society: Sociological Investigations of the Enterprise of Bioethics , Prentice Hall, December 1997.
The author, Paul Root Wolpe, Ph.D, is at the Center for Bioethics and Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.
http://health.upenn.edu/~bioethic/library/papers/paul/Triumph.html"secular fundamentalism": deeply held moral principles shorn of religious rationale.
12. Elizabeth Wilson "Feminist Fundamentalism: the Shifting Politics of Sex and Censorship" in eds. Lynn Segal and Mary Mackintosh Sex Exposed: Sexuality and the Pornography Debate (1992) Virago.
"The antiporn campaigns constitute a form of secular fundamentalism - a way of life, or a world-view or philosophy of life, which insists that the individual lives by narrowly prescribed rules and rituals: a faith that offers certainty...Liberation, by contrast, means change and uncertainty. The search for the 'new life' can be exhilarating, but it can lead to extreme anxiety and personal collapse; by contrast, the price paid for certainty is rigidity and an incomprehension and intolerance of those who do not follow the 'true way'. Those who don't believe must either be destroyed or saved. Fundamentalism in general is also associated with restrictive attitudes towards women, maintaining a rigidly patriarchal authority over them, placing them more securely within a 'private' sphere, and carefully guarding their sexuality."13. Law and The Postmodern Mind: Intellectualism
Pierre Schlag
http://stripe.colorado.edu/~schlag/anti_intellect.html14. Chapter 1: Hate Speech and Pornography
http://www.fxi.org.za/books/chap1.htm
in Jane Duncan in BETWEEN SPEECH AND SILENCE: HATE SPEECH, PORNOGRAPHY, AND THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
15. Sex Exposed, Sexuality and the Pornography Debate
Lynn Segal and Mary McIntosh
http://home.freeuk.net/achillesheel/br15_02.html16. STUDYING RELIGIONS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES AT SCHOOL
65th European Teachers Seminar
Donaueschingen, Germany, 24 - 29 October 1994
http://www.civnet.org/civitas/coe/document/civnet20.htm17. "True Believers: Religious and Secular Fundamentalism and the Threat to Liberal Democracy"
Michael DePietro, Independent Scholar
2000 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Washington, DC
Division 2: Foundations of Political Theory
http://www.political-theory.org/program2000.html
18. Apollo's two cents on cannabis and the war on drugs
http://m2.aol.com/station019/apollo.htm
19. "Secular fundamentalism" leads to a preference for repressive and authoritarian secular regimes over non-secular and popular ones.
http://www.mepc.org/journal/9710_khan.html20. A cultural politics for Hindus (and others)
http://www.humanistmovement.org/hs/apr99/two.html
21. Ethics essential for value education - The Times of India
http://www.ofbjp.org/news/1198/0002.html
"However, after Independence, our leaders adopted a 'pseudo-secular' model of education. The discontinuance of religious education in educational institutions is perhaps the one single factor that has done the greatest damage to the moral fabric of the nation. Mr Nani Palakhivala has rightly said that 'Our besetting sin is secular fundamentalism. Fundamentalism is the triumph of the letter over the spirit. The letter killeth but the spirit growth life.'"
22. Claiming the Center: Political Islam in Transition
By John L. Esposito
http://msanews.mynet.net/Scholars/Esposito/center.html
"Implicit in the analysis of many critics of political Islam is a "secular fundamentalism," a modern secular perspective which views the mixing of religion and politics as necessarily abnormal, irrational, dangerous, and extremist."
23. Academic Course: RACE, CULTURE & POWER
Graduate Course: CORE 538-01
Lewis & Clark University
http://www.lclark.edu/~grad/coresum.htm
24. Fundamentalism: Reaching for Certainty
New internationalist (issue 210 - August 1990)
http://rightsforall-usa.org/ni/issue210/keynote.htm
25. Saffron Chic
http://rediff.com/news/1996/0110man.htm
26. Anatolia Junction
Fred Reed
27. Verdict on Hunting
Rob Warner
http://www.kairos.org.uk/publications/articles/hunting.htm
28. Vanity and the Bonfires of the "isms"
RALPH PETERS
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/parameters/1993/peters.htm
29. LIVING WITHOUT UTOPIA
Peter Myers
http://www.adam.com.au/fredadin/chapters/livingw.htm
30. SUBMISSION TO THE ALL-PARTY OIREACHTAIS COMMITTEE ON THE CONSTITUTION (Ireland) 19 June, 2000
http://www.consciencelaws.org/_vti_bin/shtml.dll/Conscience-Archive/Conscience-project-documents/Irish-Committee-Conscience.html/map
It refers to a work on Secular Fundamentalism that appeared in the
University of British Columbia Law Review.
31. REPORT OF AN OPUS WORKSHOP on "CURRENT DYNAMICS IN SOCIETY"
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~opusuk/arcdyn99.htm
32. On the Social Interpretation of Cultural Experience
Reflections on Raymond Williams's Early Cultural Writings 1958-1961
http://www.und.ac.za/und/ccms/articles/culture4.htm
33. Recent Signs of Hope for America
The Nutmeg Political Report
http://www.nutmegpoliticalreport.com/archive/2000/08-13.html
34. The Bob Dylan Bootleg Series
By Richard Lehnert, July 1991
http://www.stereophile.com/showarchives.cgi?32
35. 'You've Got To Change The Political Wind'
http://www.commondreams.org/views/072300-102.htm
36. Secular Fundamentalism
"The secular person, believing primarily in tolerance, has no difficulty dealing with the different belief systems surrounding him. The secular fundamentalist, however, insists on forcing his particular dogma on the rest of society."
http://www.bcchristiannews.org/december97/letters.html#10
37. Secular Fundamentalism
http://www.dailystarnews.com/199709/02/n7090211.htm#BODY2
38. Hiding Behind Auschwitz: Zion Against the Rest
http://www.adam.com.au/fredadin/chapters/Auschwitz_Zionist.html
39. Asian Cultures Between Programmed and Desired Futures. Zia Sardar
http://www.mcb.co.uk/courseware/futures/part3/ziaud33.htm
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