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(2012) Fool's gold?, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
This chapter focuses on one of the most pernicious types of utopianism abroad today. It exemplifies the kind of thinking that so concerned Karl Popper, as discussed in Chapter 1. And it informs religious fundamentalism. I will argue that it is dangerous.1 The utopianism that drives religious fundamentalism is perfectionist, closed, static and it has divine sanction. This combines with core elements of religious fundamentalism to create a drive towards purity and purge. In proselytizing religions this is even more dangerous because expansionism and territoriality are added to the mix.
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Sargisson, L. (2012). Religious fundamentalism, in Fool's gold?, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 41-54.
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