Impact of Arabic Language, Religious Fundamentalisms and Globalization

Abstract

This paper shall look into Religion, fundamentalism and globalization, the introduction, the meaning of Religion, the term fundamentalisms and globalization which presents a number of problems to the scholars of religion, both inclusivity and cultural explanations for religious phenomena have found themselves under attack from a number of fundamentalisms that have appeared in most of the worlds major faith traditions with growing popularity throughout the latter half of the twentieth century in particular strongly critical of pluralism, each fundamentalisms has developed and exclusive truth-claim, Chris partridge, on the other hand, takes a view that ‘fundamentalisms’ does not do justice to the diversity of religious traditions and their own unique historical development. Some scholars have attempted to define ‘fundamentalism’ more precisely than the popular usage of the term, these scholars tend to take two approaches. They either attempt to identify a more penetrating understanding of the phenomenon by seeking to define it or, alternatively, they provide a list of common features. The Hadden and Schupe, two sociologist of religion in 1989 provided the following definition: a pattern of contemporary socio-political movement” that share certain characteristics in their response to a common globalization process. The paper shall also look at an approach to fundamentalisms, which reactive to marginalization of religion especially secularation, selectivity, moral dualism, absolutism millennialism. Niels Nielsen consider that fundamentalist version of religious truth-claims are ‘first and foremost a negative response to what is seen as the spectre of modernity (Nielsen, 1993, p.3).