Understanding the nature and types of underdevelopment is the key to analyzing the degree of severity in which a state is underdeveloped. The term “underdeveloped” can describe several different situations. These different types of underdevelopment are economic, social, and political. Underdeveloped nations may experience a combination of these types ranging in different degrees of severity. These different types also affect each other as they naturally interact. Handelman explained this perfectly when he said that “wealthier, …showed first 75 words of 274 total…

…showed last 75 words of 274 total…progressive Church offered a shield against political repression and a voice for the poor. As different as they are, Islamic revivalism and the progressive Catholic Church both received much of the impetus from government repression and corruption. In short, the resurgence of Third World religion was, in part, a reaction to the deficiencies of modernization and the political-economic order” (43). Religious fundamentalism can cause hostility within a state as well as strained relations with other states.