Professor Parekh acknowledges that many in the West, feeling threatened by the rise of fundamentalist movements, dismiss them as irrational and atavistic.
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He insists, though, that we analyse them rationally and brings rigour and clarity to the discussion of the concept of religious fundamentalism and cautions against the unrestricted use of this concept to describe a wide range of contemporary religious phenomena. He argues that lumping fundamentalism together with religious conservatism, revivalism and ultra-orthdoxy fails to distinguish its particular modern character.
Bhikhu Parekh was educated at the Universities of Bombay and London. He is a member of the UK House of Lords and was chair of the Runnymede Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain.
Bhikhu Parekh was educated at the Universities of Bombay and London. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Academy of the Learned Societies for Social Sciences. He is a member of the UK House of Lords and was chair of the Runnymede Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, whose report, The Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain was published in 2000. He is vice-chairman of the Gandhi Foundation and a member of the National Commission on Equal Opportunity.