American fundamentalism and the social gospel are two distinct religious movements. Both began in the early part of the 20th century. Both sprang from Christianity's attempt to deal with modern ...

Via Andrew Sullivan, here’s a blog post by a woman named [deleted at her request], who was raised in a homeschooling Christian fundamentalist family, and who has left all that behind. She writes to ...

Interreligious dialogue is an important way to counter fundamentalist groups as well as the unjust accusation that religions sow division, Pope Francis said. Meeting with members of the Argentine ...

In his speech before Congress on Thursday, Pope Francis call on the world to combat violence and extremism, noting that every religion is susceptible to pockets of fundamentalism. “Our world is ...

For a long while I have wanted to write a short message on a subject which we read about in every edition of our religious magazines: the modernist-fundamentalist debate. To be sure, each article in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A decades-old debate continues to simmer at the intersection of religion and lexicography: When is it right to apply the word ...

A study published in the journal Neuropsychologia has shown that religious fundamentalism is, in part, the result of a functional impairment in a brain region known as the prefrontal cortex. The ...