The term "fundamentalism" is generally regarded by scholars of religion as referring to a largely modern religious phenomenon which, while itself a reinterpretation of religion as defined by the parameters of modernism, reifies religion in reaction against modernist, secularist, liberal and ecumenical tendencies developing in religion and society in general that it perceives to be foreign to a particular religious tradition. Depending upon the context, the label "fundamentalism" can be a pejorative rather than a neutral characterization, similar to the ways that calling political perspectives "right-wing" or "left-wing" can have negative connotations.
the term "fundamentalism" is generally regarded by scholars of religion as referring to a largely modern religious phenomenon which while itself a reinterpretation of religion as defined by the parameters of modernism reifies religion in reaction against modernist secularist liberal and ecumenical tendencies developing in religion and society in general that it perceives to be foreign to a particular religious tradition depending upon the context the label "fundamentalism" can be a pejorative rather than a neutral characterization similar to the ways that calling political perspectives "right-wing" or "left-wing" can have negative connotations