fundamentalism
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Noun
- The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
- A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
- The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.
- A Christian movement that started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants, which emphasizes literal interpretation of the Bible, and came up as a reaction to liberal theology and cultural modernism
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