Categorization of Religious and Political Threats in Modern Social Discourse in the Territory of the Russian Federation

Abstract

The report is devoted to an attempt to analyze the religious threat as a phenomenon and as a concept used in modern social discourse in the territory of the Russian Federation. The problem disclosed by the authors is that the social discourse, devoted to assessments of religious threats, does not take into account the point of view suggesting the need to comply with the principles of equality before the law of all participants in the social process, including traditional and non-traditional religious associations. The authors conclude that in studies of threats emanating from religious associations, a distinction must be made between non-religious and religious threats. A non-religious threat should be understood as the consequences of destructive extremist activities that cause real damage to human health and life, to preserve the integrity of the state and society. The meaning of the concept of a religious threat consists in dangerous consequences of the religious doctrine influence, which serves as a cause of offending feelings of believers or unbelievers and doing them moral harm. For the practice of regulating religious interaction, it is important to understand that this type of danger, as a rule, is difficult to determine unambiguously due to subjectivity and the presence of different assessments in relation to the consequences of some of those actions