different between fundamentalism vs traditionalism

English

Etymology

fundamental +? -ism.

Pronunciation

Noun

fundamentalism (countable and uncountable, plural fundamentalisms)

1. (religion) The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts.

   Synonym: bibliolatry

2. (by extension) A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets.
   • 2009, Thomas A. Regelski, J. Terry Gates, Music Education for Changing Times: Guiding Visions for Practice

     Recent books by philosopher Roger Scruton (1999, 2000) and music educator Robert Walker (2007) may be interpreted as a last desperate gasp of this form of musical fundamentalism or neoconservativism—the kind that tells the masses what is "good for them" on the grounds that they lack adequate bases for judgments on their own […]

3. (finance) The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument.

Related terms

• fundamentalist

Derived terms

• Islamic fundamentalism
• market fundamentalism

See also

• (religion): orthodoxy
• (finance): technical analysis, value investing

Translations

References

• fundamentalism at OneLook Dictionary Search
• fundamentalism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• fundamentalism in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From traditional +? -ism.

Noun

traditionalism (countable and uncountable, plural traditionalisms)

1. The adherence to traditional views or practices, especially with regard to cultural or religious matters.
2. The continuation of theological rituals on the basis that the ritual has always completed, rather than the ritual being a manifestation of theology.
3. A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude; the doctrine that human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order.

Antonyms

• rationalism
• progressivism

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Further reading

• Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)