as is the case in Iran, to being marginalised, as occurs in Australia The end of fundamentalist groups can be onsiderable. Because fundamentalists have an immutable vision of God's for this earth and of the place of human beings within there is a ten for them to divide communities into believers and the rest'. The rest includes not only atheists agnostics but other, religious groups. The tendency to seek to fulfil God's word on also ensures that fundamentalists are active on social issues. CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISM IN THE UNITED STATES undamentalist Christianity has considerable influence on American society, where it cuts across denominations. Roofs of baby boomers one-third of the sample were either fundamentalists or revivalists (1994) and that, although they were not economically marginal or disprivileged compared with the rest of the sample, they were less likely to be college educated, were more likely to be female and were politically conservative. Fundamentalism is especially strong in the southern and mid-western states (known as the Bible Belt), where its influence is overwhelmingly conservative. The New Christian Right has supported policies which favour free trade, anti-communism, increased military spending, less central state control, reduced welfare spending and fewer controls on business. It has tended