English-French translations for fundamentalism

• fondamentalisme
  Nous le savons, fondamentalisme ou pas. We know it, fundamentalism or not.
  La menace ne vient pas que du fondamentalisme. It is not just fundamentalism that is the threat.
  L'expérience de la Nouvelle-Zélande en matière de fondamentalisme du marché s'avère un échec." New Zealand' s experiment in market fundamentalism has failed" .

Definition of fundamentalism

• 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 conservative movement in theology among 19th century and 12th century Christians, in reaction to modernism and that stresses the infallibility of the Bible not only in matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record, holding as essential to Christian faith belief in such doctrines as the creation of the world, the virgin birth, physical resurrection, atonement by the sacrificial death of Christ, and the Second Coming

Related words

• fundamental
• fundamentally
• fundamentalist
• fundamentals
• fundamentality
• fundamentalistic
• antifundamentalist
• antifundamentalism
• fundamental particle