The author gives detailed characteristic to modern religious extremism. He intones that the core of religious extremism is the ideology denying all dissention and based on mystification, on religious dogmas absolutization and on worshippers’ tight informational control leading them to zealotry. The author places primary emphasis in his characterization of religious extremism ideology on radical Islamic fundamentalism that is formally oriented towards essential idea of social justice but in fact often denies basic rules of human community life, right and morality, being the factor of personal security sphere unsealing.
Keywords: religious extremism; religious dogmatism; Islamic fundamentalism; ideology; zealotry; security of person.
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