Fundamentalist movements seek domination using selected scriptural texts

Evidence

Yet others have sought to understand political Buddhism and its subsequent nationalism and violence within the context of fundamentalist movements (Bartholomeuz and de Silva 1988). Fundamentalist movements seek ethnic, religious, and cultural domination using historical or religious texts that delineate certain fundamental beliefs and practices. Thus the bases for Christian, Jewish, and Islamic fundamentalisms are the Bible, Torah (or Pentateuch), and Koran, respectively. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 91

Categorization

• XREF: Comparison baseline: frames Sri Lanka as one instance of a general fundamentalist pattern the reader may already study. — connects to: Slave Bibles excised liberation passages while keeping obedience commands — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long: The Legacy of White…, 225