Editing Belief (section)

====Fundamentalism====
{{Main|Religious fundamentalism}}
First self-applied as a term to the conservative doctrine outlined by anti-modernist [[Protestants]] in the United States,<ref name="A.C. Dixon">{{cite web |date= 2012-11-27 |url = http://user.xmission.com/~fidelis/volume1/volume1.php |title = The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth |access-date = 2012-11-28 |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121203144842/http://user.xmission.com/~fidelis/volume1/volume1.php |archive-date = 3 December 2012 }}</ref> "fundamentalism" in religious terms denotes strict adherence to an interpretation of scriptures that are generally associated with theologically conservative positions or traditional understandings of the text and are distrustful of innovative readings, new revelation, or alternative interpretations.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bruce|first=Steve|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1001942770|title=Fundamentalism|date=2008|publisher=Polity|isbn=978-0745640754|oclc=1001942770}}</ref> Religious fundamentalism has been identified{{by whom|date=November 2017}} in the media as being associated with [[fanaticism|fanatical]] or [[zealotry|zealous]] political movements around the world that have used a strict adherence to a particular religious doctrine as a means to establish political identity and to enforce societal norms.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Fox|first=Jonathan|date=2018-02-13|title=An Introduction to Religion and Politics|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315183787|doi=10.4324/9781315183787|isbn=978-1315183787}}</ref>