ФЕНОМЕН РЕЛИГИЈСКОГ ФУНДАМЕНТАЛИЗМА
THE PHENOMENON OF RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM

Summary/Abstract: In this article the author analyses the key characteristics of the religious phenomenon known as a fundamentalism. It is emphasized that fundamentalism represents a global phenomenon that has an important role and influence in the sphere of international relations and security. Fundamentalist ideology belongs to the global trend of „the return to religion“, which has spread across many countries all over the world in the second part of the twentieth century, but its uniqueness lies in the fact that this ideology is, at the same time, religious and political, because of which it is reactionary and prone to the use of the methods of political violence in order to achieve ideological goals. The militancy of fundamentalism represents its main difference in relation to traditionalism and conservationism. Fundamentalists do not envision themselves as the passive viewers of secular life, but, on the contrary, as active fighters against the system with whose values they disagree, which sometimes leads to the political action in order to change state and society policies on all levels.

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