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Cuestiones constitucionales
Print version ISSN 1405-9193
Abstract
OLIVEIRA DE SOUZA, Rodrigo Lobato. Religious Fundamentalism: A Theoretical-Constitutional Analysis. Cuest. Const. [online]. 2023, n.49, pp.209-262. Epub Aug 05, 2024. ISSN 1405-9193. https://doi.org/10.22201/iij.24484881e.2023.49.18584.
This Article analysis the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism from theoretical-constitutional perspective. The two basic questions are: what religious fundamentalism is? And what are its boundaries? At one side, religious fundamentalism is seen as a fundamental right (religious freedom) exercise, thus appointing proper constitutional boundaries in order to harmonize it with other rights, values, goods and interests. That is the question for applying balancing. From another side, religious fundamentalism is seen as a political control strategy, a platform for achieving political aims through a religiously based fundamentalist discourse. The Article demonstrates that not only the fundamentalist phenomenon crosses the constitutional boundaries of fundamental rights exercise, rather it denies central pieces of modern liberal constitutionalism.
Keywords : religious fundamentalism; liberal constitutionalism; balancing; human dignity; Sharia; democracy.