Security Risks Generated by Behavior of Religious Fanatics

• Main Authors: Dinulescu Iulian, Troncotă Cristian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2018-06-01
• Series: Revista Academiei Forţelor Terestre
• Subjects: religious fanatics; religiosity; behavior; motivations; sects
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.2478/raft-2018-0012

Human behavior has generated a series of threats to human security throughout history, generating major violence at the time when it was doubled by an exaggerated religiosity. Religious fanaticism has manifested itself in all societies, regardless of their forms of organization. The consequences of the phenomenon deeply marked inter-human relationships, both within the community, but especially in communities that have other religions. The article shows the characteristics of religious fanaticism and the factors that cause people to adopt such a behavior of exacerbating religious zeal doubled into intolerance towards those of opponents, both of other faiths and those within their own confession.