Fundamentalists believe their cause to have grave and even cosmic importance. They see themselves as protecting not only a distinctive doctrine, but also a vital principle, and a way of life and of salvation. Community, comprehensively centered upon a clearly defined ... way of life in all of its aspects, is the promise of fundamentalist movements, and it therefore appeals to those adherents ... who find little that is distinctive, or authentically vital in their previous views identity.
The fundamentalist "wall of virtue", which protects their identity, is erected against not only other(s) ... but also against the modernized, nominal version of their own (view).This group insist on a sharp boundary between themselves and the faithful adherents of other (views), and finally between a "sacred" view ... and the "secular" world . Fundamentalists direct their critiques toward and draw most of their converts from the larger community of their (view), by attempting to convince them that they are not experiencing the authentic version of their professed (view).
Some refer to any literal-minded philosophy with pretense of being the sole source of objective truth as fundamentalist, regardless of whether it is usually called a religion. I hereby prefer the word ''view''....