Mary Jo Weaver, 15 April 1996

Fundamentalists are religious believers who...are "cornered by secularism." Although they represent quite different religious and cultural contexts, they share a bellicose vocation: they fight back, against the world, in a reactive way; they fight for the victory of a particular world view, usually one where feminism and pluralism do not exist; they fight with a chosen repertoire of sources, usually located in the past and selectively interpreted; and they fight under God or some other transcendent referent.