Religious and Philosophical Justifications of Modern International Terrorism

Student: Glebova Svetlana

Supervisor: Boris Kashnikov

Educational Programme: Philosophy and History of Religion (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2019

This paper addresses the problem of justifying violence by the terrorist organization Islamic State. The main objective of the study is to reconstruct the logic and the meaning of modern religious terrorism. The concept of modern international religious terrorism is conceptualized, religious justifications of violence are considered, religious and philosophical justifications of the violence of the ISIS are formulated, and the justification is evaluated by the principles of the theory of just war.

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