We develop a scale to measure fundamentalism among the followers of the Abrahamic faiths. The scale is intended to overcome the challenges that beset the comparative analysis of the subject: variability of religious fundamentalist movements historically, cross-nationally, and across these religions; differences in the definition of fundamentalism, and etymological ambiguity of the term. We conceptualized fundamentalism as a cluster of core orientations toward one's and others’ religion. These orientations are categorized into four components: disciplinarian deity, inerrancy or literalism, religious exclusivity, and religious intolerance. Each component is measured by four survey questions. The 16 items make a single fundamentalism scale. We discuss the scale's validity, and then verify its statistical and predictive validity on nationally representative samples from Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and Turkey, a total of 24,758 cases.

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衡量亚伯拉罕信仰中的原教旨主义

我们开发了一个量表来衡量亚伯拉罕信仰的追随者中的原教旨主义。该量表旨在克服困扰该主题比较分析的挑战：宗教原教旨主义运动在历史上、跨国和跨这些宗教的可变性；原教旨主义定义的差异，以及该术语的词源歧义。我们将原教旨主义概念化为一组针对自己和他人宗教的核心取向。这些取向分为四个组成部分：纪律的神性、无误或字面主义、宗教排他性和宗教不宽容。每个组成部分都由四个调查问题来衡量。这 16 个项目构成一个单一的原教旨主义量表。我们讨论量表的有效性，