#fundamentalism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fundamentalism, aggregated by home.social.
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Mapping the promised land for God’s chosen people
Imagined lands, biblical narratives and monotheistic practices and beliefs.
* First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-bible-published-years-borders.html* Assmann, Jan. The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691157085/the-invention-of-religion#territory #maps #borders #expansion #PromisedLand #monotheism #BoundaryMaking #ReligiousAuthorisation #sovereignty #BiblicalLiteralism #GodsWill #christian #fundamentalism #theology #LandClaims #ImaginedCommunity #PlaceNames #SettlerSociety #narratives #GodZone
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How people pick and choose which #Bible verses to take literally, which to enforce as #civillaw, tells us more about the person, than about God's will. The #Torah indeed is religiously amazing - but #fundamentalism combined with unexamined #prejudice (which we all have) prevents us from understanding it.
So on a related note, how do #Jewish people read the Torah?https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2017/03/12/peshat-and-derash/