igious fundamentalist groups in recent years. I will later have a look at the Christian Right in America and the Islamic movement in Turkey.
             As I have mentioned above there are both violent and non-violent fundamentalist groups. Extreme religious violent groups do not go between reality and illusion but rather maintain illusion as their own special reality (Volkan, Vamik). They will look to somebody to guide them and will follow this person regardless of what they do or propose to do. They will be promised rewards for their actions. As an example suicide bombers are promised eternal glory in the afterlife. The Christian fundamentalist movement would be classed as a non-violent group. Historian, George M. Marsden defines fundamentalism in his work 'Fundamentalism and American Culture' as "militant anti-modernist Protestant evangelicalism." Marsden goes on to describe Christian fundamentalists as "American evangelical Christians who in the 20th century opposed "both modernism in theology and the cultural changes that modernism endorsed."" He believes militant opposition to modernism was what clearly set off fundamentalism. (Marsden (1980), Fundamentalism and American Culture p. 4) However militant in this case does not necessarily mean violent rather it means being aggressively active for a certain cause. It is interesting to study why people join these groups. There are a variety of reasons. People are always searching for answers to questions such as why we are here and what
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