jupitersterrain four

fun·da·men·tal·ism [fuhn-duh-men-tl-iz-uhm] Show IPA
noun
1.
( sometimes initial capital letter ) a movement in American Protestantism that arose in the early partof the 20th century in reaction to modernism and that stresses the infallibility of the Bible not onlyin matters of faith and morals but also as a literal historical record, holding as essential to Christianfaith belief in such doctrines as the creation of the world, the virgin birth, physical resurrection,atonement by the sacrificial death of Christ, and the Second Coming

*********

dictionaries usually start off emphasising the strictness of this 

rather than the original form ... 

surely the strictness has to do with radicalism and militancy