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Sandu Frunză, Fundamentalismul religios şi noul conflict al ideologiilor (Religious fundamentalism and the new conflict of ideologies), 2nd revised edition (Cluj-Napoca: Editura Şcoala Ardeleană, 2015).
Fundamentalismul religios şi noul conflict al ideologiilor (Religious fundamentalism and the new conflict of ideologies), written by Professor Sandu Frunză (Department of Communication, Public Relations and Advertisement, Faculty of Political Science, Babeş-Bolyai University) was published in 2015 and it represents a revised and enlarged version of the 2003 edition. It offers a very exciting debate regarding two key concepts of contemporary society: "religious fundamentalism" and "spiritual regeneration movement".
The study is structured in six parts, each with its adjacent chapters and subchapters. It begins by defining myth, religion and ideology in order to discuss not only the religious fundamentalist movements in the context of global relations, but also the way in which religion relates to ideology by pointing out the critical issues created by this relation: violence as a religious discourse, but also tolerance and multiculturalism.
Understanding religion as "a manifestation of the sacred", Sandu Frunză analyses the way in which, in the contemporary world, it tends to transform into a rather "laicised cultural discourse" and even more so into a political one. Today, the ideological discourse greatly contributes to the...