FUNDAMENTAL ATTITUDES IN NEO-RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES AS A THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY OF UKRAINE DURING WAR

Abstract

Among the threats to the national security of Ukraine in the conditions of racist aggression and fullscale war, attention should also be paid to those aspects of religious fundamentalism that manifest in neo-religious teachings and cults. In particular, these are exclusivism, literalism, theocracy, hierarchism, eschatology, etc. The study of the peculiarities of the manifestation of fundamentalist attitudes in the environment of neo-religious movements that are currently operating in Ukraine will allow us to understand important aspects of the further socio-cultural transformations of our community and, at least in a small way, will contribute to the protection of Ukrainians from manifestations of aggression and terrorism both from the side of quasi-religious fundamentalist groups and and from individual carriers of fundamentalist ideas. Thus, the purpose of the study was to identify the peculiarities of the manifestation of religious fundamentalism in neo-religious movements operating on the territory of modern Ukraine and the impact of this phenomenon on the country's national security in wartime conditions.
Currently, the unproductiveness of banning and ousting from the sphere of public communication both individual bearers of the fundamentalist worldview and religious organizations that are based on fundamentalist ideas or base their ambitious political projects on them is obvious. It is important to establish a public dialogue to discuss the problems provoked by the existence of the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism, to understand the reasons that give rise to such phenomena, to identify the patterns of their development and the peculiarities of their impact on social life.
It is obvious that the analysis of the stated problem will contribute to the further development of domestic rel igious and socio-humanitarian knowledge, as well as to the identification of those threats that religious fundamentalists carry with them in the conditions of Russian aggression.