cience when it disproves their beliefs. Basically, it is a present-day form of religious asceticism, intent on liberating religious tradition from the confines of a society constantly reforming its own new-age traditions having no concern or place for that of the past. In Iran, Muslim fundamentalism was preserved through Jihad, holy war, and then through a national authoritarian rule. Christians in America, have chosen to preserve their religious tradition through evangelizing within the mass media, utilizing cable networks, radio, and national conventions which address political action. With no more in common than a desire for liberation and reform in a changing society, student radicalism in both America and France has affected both nations just as much as have the two forms of religious politics. Student rebellions in 1968, led by Tom Hayden and Daniel Cohn-Bendit in America, stressed the problem of specialization of education, which as Hayden stated, “leaves little room for sweeping thought.” Yet the two student rebellions were not exactly alike, they differed in coherence with the contrast between the political cultures of the two countries. The differences are even apparent in their different slogans. American students yelled, “make love not war” and those in France yelled, “make love and revolution”. The question in France was not whether to be a revolutionary, but rather, what kind of revolutionary one should be. France’s tradition has characteristically been one of revolutions and major reforms, where America’s tradition has been one of renewals. Following a tradition of renewals, Feminism in America has been characterized by a desire to renew the economic and political standings of women to a position of equality with men. Their basic argument, being that women and men are equal in every aspect besides a few physical traits, has carried their reform politics to various...
