The purpose of this project is to understand various fundamentalist thoughts and movements and to clarify the problems of the globalizing world through the investigations of (1)the Hindu Nationalism, (2)the Political Islam, (3)the Americanism, (4)the structure of fundamentalist mentality.Our studies shows that many people are threatened with not only the economic gaps but in the human right and the right to life under the accelerating globalizing capitalism, and such people would share the fundamentalist thoughts and join the movements to contest the present situations and to challenge them. We will continue to study the problematique of the economic and cultural globalization on the results of this project.
