Religious terrorism: Conceptual problems of political analysis
https://doi.org/10.31249/poln/2018.04.03
Abstract
The article undertakes to identify the roots and nature of a link between religion and terrorism, which is highlighted in both numerous terroristic acts in the name and on behalf of the God and often cited notion of «religious terrorism». It states the phenomenon is hard to define, critically analyses main scientific approaches to treating the interlinkage between religion and terrorism, discusses the traits of religious terrorism and its kinds. The author shows that religion can give a new dimension to social and political conflict and underscores the necessity to study religious terrorism in the context of problems and contradictions of the modernization and globalization processes and accounting for the specificity of religious traditions.
About the Author
Irina Kudryashova
Moscow State Institute of International Relations
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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