Some varieties of fundamentalist churches are particularly attractive for the amount of disadvantaged and impoverished, humiliated and stripped of human dignity, (which) can not help but watch with a mixture of envy and resentment the way of life (...) the more affluent.
The Black Muslims in the U.S., Israel synagogue in Eastern Europe that collects the Sephardic (...) are prime examples but not unique. These congregations (...) provide (in addition to services denied by the states) that ingredient of a decent human life in the most painfully felt the lack, and that society (...) has refused to offer: the sense of purpose, of a life (or death) that has meaning, a legitimate and dignified place in the overall scheme of things. Also promises to defend the faithful from the "identity" conferred, stereotyping and stigma imposed by the forces that govern the inhospitable and hostile "outside world".
(...) The fundamental (religious) is not just a religious phenomenon. (...) In order to fully comprehend, you must place in the context of the new social inequality and rampant injustice that exists in the global space.
* also these notes are taken from the interview on identity
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