ABSTRACT

No modern movement can succeed without organising appropriately. Fundamentalisms are no exception. However, fundamentalist movements differ in their strategies. Some separate and withdraw from the world, others engage with it politically and socially, and others assault it violently. The first group organise so as to ensure conformity, and erect defensive barriers. The Amish, for example, use inter-related controls which organise every aspect of life. The second group use existing ecclesiastical or political systems, the Sydney Anglicans providing the case study here. And the violent movements such as al-Qaeda plan assaults and campaigns with military precision, although they recently rely on sleeper cells.