Formulating the claim
The text links the rise of fundamentalisms in the three religions to political and social threats and to a longing for forms of belonging and stability.
Explanation
The text also stresses the political use of religion as part of this rise. Fundamentalism is not understood here as a merely religious posture, but as a response to a historical and political crisis, fed by a sense of threat and by the desire to recover a lost certainty.
Its place in the book’s argument
This idea appears within the book’s attempt to explain fundamentalism as a phenomenon tied to historical and political context, rather than as an isolated religious stance. It helps connect the analysis of religious discourse to transformations in social reality and crises of legitimacy.
What the atom does not say
This page does not specify all forms of threat, nor does it distinguish the kinds of longing intended, and it does not expand on the differences in context among the three religions.
Brief evidence
Egyptians will remain, but they will not renew their understanding of religion, nor can they do that at all. A sect or a group those intellectual tasks. On their old theological positions that revere the self and declare others unbelievers The modern scientific elite, in all its diversity and plurality, bears and deconstructive and liberatory burdens, which can overcome every sectarian, racial, and various corners of the world. In its search for truth and equality among human beings. It is a matter of great significance and meaning that the discipline of comparative history of religions has not reached
Close links
Where Is Contemporary Islamic Thought?, Islamic Thought: Critique and Ijtihad