| During the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90%27s 1990s], fundamentalists maintained their commitment to [[political]] [[action]], although developments at the national level, such as Pat Robertson's failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, led many to [[focus]] on local or grassroots efforts. Control of local school boards became one of the most common objectives of fundamentalists in their attempts to influence public policy. They also adopted a more direct approach to expressing their opposition to trends within the [[entertainment]] industry through boycotts of entertainment production companies and their advertisers. Thus, although its prominence in national politics had declined, fundamentalism continued to offer a substantive [[critique]] of [[mainstream]] American [[culture]]. Finally, it has also provided a [[model]] for understanding the resurgence of militant religious traditionalism in other regions of the world, within religious cultures as different as [[Islam]], [[Judaism]], and [[Hinduism]]. In this sense, the term "fundamentalism" now applies not only to a conservative wing of evangelical Protestantism in the United States, but to a variety of [[analogous]] social trends, sometimes accompanied by the [[violence]] of "Holy war," that have developed around the [[earth|globe]].—Roger W. Stump | | During the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90%27s 1990s], fundamentalists maintained their commitment to [[political]] [[action]], although developments at the national level, such as Pat Robertson's failed bid for the Republican presidential nomination in 1988, led many to [[focus]] on local or grassroots efforts. Control of local school boards became one of the most common objectives of fundamentalists in their attempts to influence public policy. They also adopted a more direct approach to expressing their opposition to trends within the [[entertainment]] industry through boycotts of entertainment production companies and their advertisers. Thus, although its prominence in national politics had declined, fundamentalism continued to offer a substantive [[critique]] of [[mainstream]] American [[culture]]. Finally, it has also provided a [[model]] for understanding the resurgence of militant religious traditionalism in other regions of the world, within religious cultures as different as [[Islam]], [[Judaism]], and [[Hinduism]]. In this sense, the term "fundamentalism" now applies not only to a conservative wing of evangelical Protestantism in the United States, but to a variety of [[analogous]] social trends, sometimes accompanied by the [[violence]] of "Holy war," that have developed around the [[earth|globe]].—Roger W. Stump |
| *Ammerman, Nancy T. Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1987. | | *Ammerman, Nancy T. Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1987. |