THE STUDENTS’ RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM AS PREDICTED
BY RELIGIOUS STYLES
Yohanes Budiarto
Faculty of Psychology at Tarumanagara University
yohanesb@fpsi.untar.ac.id
Abstract
Religious fundamentalism has originated from American Protestant movement in the United States in the early
20th century. Religious fundamentalism values are viewed as the opposite of modernity values and now it
emerges in every religion. The purpose of this present study was to test the correlation between religious styles
and religious fundamentalism. It was hypothesized that religious styles correlated with religious fundamentalism
in that the Truth of Text and Teaching styles correlated positively with religious fundamentalism while Fairness,
Tolerance and Rational Choice style and Xenosophia style correlated negatively with religious fundamentalism
among Catholic youngsters. Participants were 265 (men n = 117, and women n = 148 females). The age was in
range from 16 – 18 years old (M = 17.98, SD = .149). The finding supported the hypotheses that the Truth of
Text and Teaching styles correlated positively with religious fundamentalism, r (265) = .330, p = .000; Fairness,
Tolerance and Rational Choice style correlated negatively with religious fundamentalism r (265) = -.256, p =
.000; and Xenosophia style correlated negatively with religious fundamentalism r (265) = -.186, p = .000. This
meant that students with high Truth of Text and Teaching religious styles tend to religiously fundamental. On the
other hand, students with high Tolerance and Rational Choice and Xenosophia religious styles tend to have
lower religious fundamentalism.
Keywords: religious fundamentalism, Truth of Text and Teaching religious style, Fairness, Tolerance and
Rational Choice religious style and Xenosophia religious style.