1. Psychosocial & Socioeconomic Perspective
Fundamentalism
From Secular to Sacred
Psychosocial & Socioeconomic Perspective
What Is To Be Done? By
Tahir M. Qazi, MD

2. History & Definition Protestants Conference in Niagara Falls, NY
Scopes Trial (Monkey Trial) 1925
Theory of Natural Selection Under Fire
Ideology & Use of Violent/Non-violent means

3. Fundamentalism As a Set of Values

4. Modes of Human Thinking & Corresponding Philosophic Conceptions
Dogmatic
Semi-Dogmatic
Rationalist
Fundamentalism ??
Humanism/Secularism

5. Fundamentalism As a Set of Values
Self Righteousness
Narcissism
Proselytizing
Dogmatic Thinking

6. An Unsocialized Horror Destructive of Property
Unable to Share Possessions
Insistent & Demanding for Gratification
Violent & Uninhibited in Display of Feelings
Fundamentalist
Militant Fundamentalist
None of the Above

7. Psycho-social Models hold better promise
Personality Theories are NOT appropriate for understanding fundamentalism
Psycho-social Models hold better promise
For understanding Fundamentalism

8. Sociopolitical Behavior
Religious Fundamentalism Scale
Individual Behavior
Sociopolitical Behavior
Authoritarian Submission
Sanctioned Aggression
Commitment to Conventions
Altemeyers; Page 380

9. Proselytizing Fundamentalist Parents to a teenager:
S/he had been raised in a non-religious Family.
Thinking to be religious. What would you advise?
Atheist Parents to a teenager:
S/he had been raised in a religious Family.
Thinking to become an atheist. What would you advise?

10. Try to lead teen to their faith ________________________
98% religious parents
Try to lead teen to their faith
________________________
18% Atheist Parents
Try to lead teen to their atheism
80% Atheist Parents Responded:
“They would encourage the teen to search among
Alternatives beliefs and decide for yourself”

11. Atheistic Fundamentalism is not a valid construct
Atheists are not insecure
Atheists are open to modern changes
Atheistic Fundamentalism is not a valid construct

12. Role of Social Conditions in Determination of Behavior
Fundamentalism is an Attitude
Towards Belief (Ideology)
Role of Social Conditions in
Determination of Behavior
Learned Behavior

13. Fundamentalism & Violence
Protestant fundamentalists in the US fought for their ideology in the court of law
Taliban in Afghanistan resorted to violence
Why?

14. Japan vs Afghanistan

15. Fundamentalist Valuesvs
Secular Values

16. Self Expression
Gender Relations
Homosexuality
Civil Liberties
Political Structure

17. “Cultural Values have enduring and
Cultural Theorists: Max Weber to Sam Huntington
“Cultural Values have enduring and
Autonomous influence on the society”
Economic Theorists: Karl Marx to Daniel Bell
“Socioeconomic development brings
pervasive changes in the society”

24. Sequence of Human Development
Existential Security
Economic Change
Self-Expression Values
Cultural Change
Democratic Institutions
Political Change
Modernism, Cultural Change & Democracy: Page 134

25. Fundamentalism to Secularism?
Value Change
Fundamentalism to Secularism?
Existential security
Economic Justice
Education

26. Thank You