Problematization of religious threats in the modern social discourse of Western countries and Russia

Abstract

The research objective is a comparative analysis of the problems of religious threats in modern social security discourse in Western countries and Russia. The methodological basis of the study is the phenomenological approach used in the process of explaining the meanings arising in the interaction of religion and society and the comparative approach aimed at analyzing the impact on the consciousness of believers in traditional and non-traditional religions. The result of the study is proof of the provision that the content of modern social discourse on the religious threat in the West is under the influence of a concept that separates the activities of religious organizations recognized as a security threat, and the content of religious doctrines not recognized as a threat. Another result is the statement that in Russia, the most socially influential concept reflects the problem of religious threats in the context of the friend-foe dichotomy, according to which non-traditional religious associations are considered to be the source of religious threats to social security.