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What does fundamentalism mean?

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Noun
  1. (religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.
  2. (finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of an instrument.
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Nationalist fundamentalism as a basis for French policy gave way to pragmatic intergovernmentalism.
The film functions best in its role as a critique of militarism, jingoism and fundamentalism.
Twentieth-century fundamentalism has acted as a drag on secularizing tendencies.
But in this New World, dogmatism and its blood brother, religious fundamentalism, are thriving as never before.
He had an abiding fear of fundamentalism, not a neurotic fear, but a deep horror of it.
This is best illustrated, as he points out, by the misidentification of Hindu religious nationalism as fundamentalism.

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