ABSTRACT
The grass roots realities of fundamentalisms become visible at the local level of analysis. When we examine the Finsbury Park Mosque in London, where Abu Hamza preached to several of those found guilty of planning to bomb London in 2005, or Jerry Falwell’s Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia (Harding, 2000), or Rabbi Kook’s yeshiva in Jerusalem, we are getting down to the practical details of how fundamentalisms work. However, the analysis will not be in terms of leaflets printed, donations secured, or systems put in place. Rather, I will continue to treat such local examples of fundamentalisms as cultures, in this case, sub-cultures of the particular fundamentalist movement of which they are part.
