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Do fundamentalisms tend toward political activism, and how<br> successful have they been in remaking political structures?<br> To answer this question, the contributors to this volume—<br> political scientists, historians of religion,<br> anthropologists, and sociologists—discuss the anti-<br> abortion movement, Operation Rescue in the United States, the<br> Islamic war of resistance in Afghanistan, Shi'ite<br> jurisprudence in Iran, and other issues. The volume<br> considers the effect that antisecular religious movements<br> have had over the past twenty-five years on national<br> economies, political parties, constitutional issues, and<br> international relations on five continents and within the<br> traditions of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism,<br> Hinduism, and Sikhism. Marty and Appleby conclude with a<br> synthetic statement on the fundamentalist impact on polities,<br> economies, and state security.<br> The Fundamentalism Project, Volume 3<br> <br> Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby direct the<br> Fundamentalism Project. Marty, the Fairfax M. Cone<br> Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Modern<br> Christianity at the University of Chicago, is the senior<br> editor of the <i>Christian Century</i> and the author of<br> numerous books, including the multivolume <i>Modern American</i><br> <i>Religion,</i> also published by the University of<br> Chicago Press. Appleby, a research associate at the<br> University of Chicago, is the author of <i>“Church and</i><br> <i>Age Unite!” The Modernist Impulse in American</i><br> <i>Catholicism.</i>