fundamentalism

1. The tendency to reduce a religion to its most fundamental tenets, based on strict interpretation of core texts. (countable, uncountable)
2. A rigid conformity to any set of basic tenets. (countable, uncountable)
3. The belief that fundamental financial quantities are the best predictor of the price of a financial instrument. (countable, uncountable)
4. A Christian movement that started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries among British and American Protestants, which emphasizes literal interpretation of the Bible, and came up as a reaction to liberal theology and cultural modernism (countable, uncountable)

Plural fundamentalisms