Authors
- Volobuev Alexey Viktorovich PhD (Philosophy), assistant professor, docent of the Department of Sociology, Financial University under the Government of Russian Federation. E-mail: avvolobuev@fa.ru
Annotation
The article examines the intersection of religious fundamentalism and nationalism as two distinct identity matrices. The article highlights the key features of religious fundamentalism and shows the spectrum of possible relationships between fundamentalism and nationalism. Using the example of Hindu ethno-religious fundamentalism, options for merging religious fundamentalism and nationalism into a radical ethno-religious fundamentalist ideology have been demonstrated. Fundamentalism does not represent a single whole, it is a set that is a sociopolitical expression of a religious narrative that has filled the ideological and value void left
after the end of metanarratives. The author reveals the general and differences between Hindu ethno-religious fundamentalism and the Great Awakening of Protestant Religious Revivalists at the end of the 19th century, as well as the reformist movements of Sunni Muslims, showing that similar processes simultaneously occurred in response to the same challenges at different ends of the world and in different cultural and historical circumstances. The author justifies the thesis that religious fundamentalism and nationalism, in this regard, can not only be competitors for identity, but also constitute sometimes bizarre symbiosis, which forms an ideology that
requires a return to the “original purity” of the nation and the dogmas of faith, even if this purity, like the nation, did not exist in the pre-modern period.
How to link insert
Volobuev, A. V. (2023). HINDU ETHNO-RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 2023, № 2 (46), 59. https://doi.org/10.25688/2078-9238.2023.46.2.5
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