ion. Many a prestigious men followed, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Jesse Jackson, all organizing the African-American population around “ideals of manhood and womanhood” such as racial self-respect, and self-determination.Just as nationalism is characterized by a demand for motivation, in the form of self-determination, liberation theology is characterized by a call or demand for action. Identified with the Catholic Church, especially in Latin America and other third world countries, liberation theology emphasizes social praxis of liberating countries such as Latin America from their economic dependency on the U.S. in hopes of modernizing it, and in turn, helping to avoid the increasing disparity. Its main doctrine holds that the church is a vital agency of history, molding historic conditions through praxis, or action. Its “correct action” is called orthopraxis, and it is the belief that the liberation should be enacted by the poor and that the church must be there to lead the revolutionary movement against capitalism. They seek to banish collective sin, the institutionalized exploitation of the poor by the upper class simply because they are the upper class, by working to “conscientize” the upper class, or in other words, making them conscious and aware personally, socially, and politically to the growing disparity.On the other side of the spectrum of religious politics is Fundamentalism, which is centered around protecting and preserving religious beliefs and practices being threatened by changing social conditions. All religious fundamentalist groups share common characteristics. They are characteristics like charismatic leadership, subordination of women, moralism, messianism / and subordination of political power - which stress a concern only for the sacred and the subordination of everything else to it, dogmatism, inerrancy, respect for the supernatural , and the rejection of s...
