Fundamentalism and pentecostalism as an expression of antagonistic religiosity, and a significant common bond

Abstract

Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism are major movements within modern Christianity. They come from a common religious aspect and will gradually be expanding (to other religions, such as fundamentalism) and differentiating. Initially, possible points of interaction are established, and it is postulated that both fundamentalism and Pentecostalism are reactionary movements to an enlightened and secular modernity that has removed the centrality of God (according to the tenets of the secularization thesis), the first reacting in a «rational» manner, referring to a literal reading of the scriptures, and the second in an «experiential» manner, living the religious experience in a «direct» way through glossolalia, ecstasy or other body expressions. In conclusion, it argues that both movements would be conflicting versions of religious experience, with the particularity of constituting communities firmly established that react to  the secular world, from the perspective of modern uncertainty of Zygmunt Bauman.