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Why are you ascribing "sense of community" to fundamentalism and not religious communities in general? And is it really the case that there are no secular comm
by greglindahl 10y ago
Why are you ascribing "sense of community" to fundamentalism and not religious communities in general?
And is it really the case that there are no secular communities that offer a sense of community?
- dragonwriter 10y agoHighly structured, highly exclusionary belief systems (which tends to be the common thing about "fundamentalism" when it's used as a generic term, rather than a reference to a particular Protestant Christian theology) reinforce a sense of community because they promote strong common identity markers and strong boundaries between in- and out-groups. This is also, of course, what makes them particularly dangerous.