fundamentalism

countable uncountable broadly

(religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts. / (by extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.

Japanese Meaning

宗教的原理主義：宗教の基本的な信条にのみ忠実で、核心テキストの厳格な解釈に基づく信仰や実践。 / 拡大解釈として、基本的な教義や原理に対する厳格な固執や順守を意味する。

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The book argued that fundamentalism often emerges from social insecurity and a craving for clear moral boundaries.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

その本は、宗教的原理主義がしばしば社会的不安や明確な道徳的境界を求める渇望から生じると論じていた。

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Sense（1）

(religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.

Sense（2）

(by extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.

Recent books by philosopher Roger Scruton (1999, 2000) and music educator Robert Walker (2007) may be interpreted as a last desperate gasp of this form of musical fundamentalism or neoconservativism—the kind that tells the masses what is "good for them" on the grounds that they lack adequate bases for judgments on their own […]

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Sense（3）

(finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.

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