Philosophical aspects of religious fundamentalism

The article is devoted to the analysis of philosophical aspects of the difficult and ambiguous phenomenon of religious fundamentalism. The author opens a depth entity of fundamentalist attitude and also world outlook, philosophical and social and psychological bases of fundamentalism in the context of the modern globalized world. By the author it is shown that fundamentalism in general is not a traditionalism synonym, and one of possible responses of religious consciousness to rough process of upgrade. Religious fundamentalism is not a synonym of traditionalism, but political ideology, aggressive response to upgrade and rationalization of religious life and society. The essence of this response is that in the modern society of risk, turbulence and the open future, religious fundamentalism presents the simplified alternative in a failure mode from upgrade per se, seeing an ideal in the idyllic simplified pattern which allegedly had the place in the past. Instead of disentangling a cobweb of social and economic problems, fundamentalism advances the idea of return to the previous status of society when these problems did not exist.