Local newspapers have detailed the fundamentalist backgrounds of the two men so far officially identified.

The protagonist, a farm boy from a fundamentalist religious background, dreams of the cosmos and is exposed to the new universe of Einstein.

These Christian countercult activists stem from Evangelical or fundamentalist backgrounds.

He was charged with having "planned serious acts of violence as a member of a terrorist group with an Islamic fundamentalist background," the federal prosecutor said.

Home schooling has long been used by families with fundamentalist religious backgrounds, but its growth beyond that group has made professional educators and state education departments jittery.

These are probably more likely to vote for Paisley's democratic unionism and to come from either religious, fundamentalist backgrounds or populist working-class and lower middle-class backgrounds.

Originally from a fundamentalist Evangelical background, he "rejected its dogmas and practices" when he was about 20 years old.

They are from a very strict fundamentalist background that doesn't allow social dancing.

But he said meditative Zen sitting in the lotus position "helped take some of the edge off my hard fundamentalist background."