Contemporary fundamentalist Christianity in Finland: the variety of religious subjectivities and their association with values
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Abstract
<p>In sharp contrast to both academic and public expectations on secularisation, religious</p><p>fundamentalism has lately exhibited vitality both socially and culturally. This raises</p><p>questions regarding its characteristics and nature; and from the increasing academic</p><p>interestamore definite and nuanced understanding of its defining features has emerged.</p><p>In this article we address the internal diversity of religious fundamentalism. The findings</p><p>we report are from a mixed-method study of Christian fundamentalism in Finland. The</p><p>methods we used were the Schwartz!s value survey using the PVQ-R questionnaire with</p><p>Wulff!s Faith Q-sort based on Q-methodology. We explore both values and religious</p><p>subjectivities and the potential relationship between these. Our results indicate that</p><p>contemporary religious fundamentalism should not be comprehended as a singular trajectory</p><p>with some defining internal features, but rather as a negotiation between a diversity</p><p>of individual motives and external and contextual influences. This finding can</p><p>shed further light on the potential variation and change of contemporary fundamentalism</p><p>in different contexts.</p>