ABSTRACT
Is it possible to, in a meaningful way, relate theological attitudes towards the secular, modern societies to the main political orientations of our times? In this final chapter, the author portrays, and distinguishes between, religious modernism, religious traditionalism and religious fundamentalism, three theological stances that take different attitudes towards secularisation and political religion, and towards established religious authorities and new ones. It is demonstrated how these three varieties have historically been associated, and/or intertwined, with the three main modern political movements, i.e. liberalism, socialism and conservatism. Hopefully such a mapping, though admittingly quite sketchy, will strike the reader as practical. Next, moving on towards the nightfall of the book, the complex question about the historical as well as ideological relationship between religious fundamentalism and fascism is scrutinised. This examination is then carried on by an explication about nationalism, racism and revolutionary sentiments. This explication closes the book’s final chapter that so has had the straightforward aim to survey the relations between dominant theological views on the virtues and vices of the secular capitalist world and the main political ideologies.
