Religious Terrorism in the Context of Conflictological Discourse
Religious Terrorism in the Context of Conflictological Discourse

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article to enhance knowledge of the nature of religious terrorism, one of the most inhumane ways of solving vital problems. Traditionally, the methodology of naturalism has predominated in studies on this type of social conflict. Moreover, the naturalist approach views this subject of research as it would any other. An alternative methodology is the activity approach. Clearly, there can generally be no conflicts outside the social activity of people. All arguments about the conflict (collision) of needs, interests, goals, positions, opinions, etc., are a figurative metaphor characteristic of the naturalistic approach. Undoubtedly, all the above-mentioned, so-called “components” of clashes, cannot exist outside their carriers. And their true role is manifested only in the concrete activity of people.The activity approach is applied here to analyze the causes of the conflict potential of modern globalization processes. The latter are a kind of triggering mechanism for an truly avalanche-like flow of problems in the economic, socio-political, cultural, spiritual and other spheres of life of the modern global community. At the same time, the article focuses on religious and terrorist activities among Muslims. In this perspective, the article provides an analysis of the peculiarities of the religious situation in Kazakhstan, which serves as the basis for individual manifestations of this kind of excesses on the country’s territory.The conclusion is that religious terrorism is an international phenomenon. It is associated with the activities of individuals who have blind, fanatical faith in certain religious ideologies. The terrorists, by their actions, are opposed to practically the whole world around them.

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