Religious xenophobia in the everyday consciousness of Russian progressive youth: risk assessment
Religious xenophobia in the everyday consciousness of Russian progressive youth: risk assessment

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the sociological analysis of the attitudes of religiousxenophobia among the most socially and culturally developed partof modern Russian youth, represented by students. The research discourseis formed at the intersection of the problems of “risk society”, revitalisationof religion, and xenophobia. The main purpose of the study is to obtain areflexive assessment of the religious characteristics of Russian studentsin terms of xenophobic reactions, discrimination, and violations of citizens’rights on religious grounds. The method of data collection was a masssurvey of Russian students from one of the regions of the Russian Federation.It was revealed that at least 20% of students find some extremistpractices around them. The internet is the leading platform for xenophobicand extremist antisocial practices. In the environment that young peopleobserve, religious xenophobia has a much larger scope than it would seem,and the “isthmus” that brings it into a position of extremism is much narrowerthan it appears at first glance. The lack of understanding of thecontinuity between the phenomena of xenophobia and extremism constrictsthe area of management of the situation and creates the possibilityof critical risks of conflicts with destructive consequences.

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