RELIGIOUS FUNDAMENTALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS: THE IDEA AND MODERN PRACTICE ; РЕЛИГИОЗНЫЙ ФУНДАМЕНТАЛИЗМ И ПРАВА ЧЕЛОВЕКА: ИДЕЯ И СОВРЕМЕННАЯ ПРАКТИКА ; РЕЛІГІЙНИЙ ФУНДАМЕНТАЛІЗМ І ПРАВА ЛЮДИНИ: ІДЕЯ ТА СУЧАСНА ПРАКТИКА

The content of the concept of religious fundamentalism is analyzed; the peculiarities of positioning and forms of manifestation of the phenomenon of religious fundamentalism in the socio-cultural space of the modern world are considered; the specifics of the relationship and the existing fundamental contradictions between fundamentalist ideas and practices and the idea of human rights and ways to defend them are studied. It is concluded that religious fundamentalism is a complex phenomenon that has not only a purely religious nature but also socio-political essence, gives to faith an ideological character, and provides social action against cultural modernity and secular nature of power, while following religious orthodoxy. Religious fundamentalists seek to adhere strictly to the foundations of their sacred sources and texts, to defend a monopoly on the only possible point of view based on them, to follow unconditionally the letter of proposed definitions and interpretations, which is inevitably embodied in a certain doctrinal intransigence, which often contradicts modern values, which are usually associated with human rights and fundamental freedoms. Religious fundamentalism manifests itself as a worldview, an interpretation of reality based on a certain religious matrix, combined with political actions that flow from it and aimed at weakening democratic processes, against policies to promote pluralism and diversity in their interdependence. Religious fundamentalism is a divisive force that denies dialogue and democracy, asserts its view as absolute and the only possible, leads to the self-separation of religious fundamentalists from those who do not share their credo, restricts individual freedoms and human rights, and is the antithesis of them. In its most extreme forms, religious fundamentalism emerges as radicalism, which, when applied in practice, negatively affects not only the human rights situation but also the security or life of individuals and human communities. ; Проанализировано содержание понятия ...