The Ideologization of Religion as a Threat to Mediterranean Countri

Abstract

This article aims to reconstruct the mechanisms of politicization and ideologization of religion in modern and contemporary understandings of politics and to present the threats to internal security that it could cause. Security risks resulting from the ideologization of religion are illustrated by contemporary Islamism, which inspires actions by terrorist organizations in some countries of the Mediterranean basin. In a theoretical layer of the process this ideologization manifests itself in the fact that religious assertions about transcendentally significant ideas are internalized as immanent. In terms of practice, the ideologization means the domination of the group’s objectives over individual objectives of religion resulting from its very nature. The article shows the modern source of the ideologization of religion and its modern and contemporary transformational mechanisms into an ideology of power. This study establishes a causal relationship between an ideologized form of religion and security threats.