Actual problems of counteracting religious extremism

Abstract

There is a review of extremism’s definitions by the legal and theological view point in this article. Also, there is an information about the problems of determining the theoretical and methodological foundations of prevention of extremism, problem of qualification’s religious extremism. In the context of the existing regulatory framework issues of the definition of extremism were raised. On the basic of analysis of the conceptual apparatus, the author's approach to the definition of extremism was formulated. The authors reveal the prerequisites of religious extremism and measures for its prevention. There are the other prerequisites of religious extremism described in this article including: contradictory nature of the texts considered sacred ones but they have contradictions since they don’t imagine realities of previous eras; particularities of a religious discourse admitted its religion as a true religion and other ones as false ones; an ethnic and religious self-identification leading to revival of religiosity’s archaic forms and nationalism; an arbitrary and tendentious interpretation of religious texts. In this article we used the materials of copyright religious studies and examinations carried out for the law enforcement bodies of the Far East of Russia.