Kruger, J.S. (Jacobus Stefanus), 1940-2008-10-092008-10-092006Kruger, JS 2006, 'Religious fundamentalism : aspects of a comparative frame-work of understanding', Verbum et Ecclesia, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 886-908. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_verbum.html]1609-9982http://hdl.handle.net/2263/7511The article presents the outline of a comparative framework for the understanding of religious fundamentalism. The argument is developed around the interrelated aspects of macro-historical religious context, socio-religious context, and the context of religious tradition as a primary dimension of religion. In those overlapping contexts, the possibility of fundamentalism is explained with reference to pre-disposing, precipitating and perpetuating conditions. In terms of the dimension of religious tradition, fundamentalism is expounded in terms of the following three aspects: education, inter-pretation and identity-definition. Fundamentalism emerges as an awkward mix (not a creative synthesis) of traditional and modernist elements in the present breach - with its peculiar characteristics, crises and threats - between epochs.enFaculty of Theology, University of PretoriaFundamentalismReligious fundamentalismArticle