Resumen de Examination of religious conflicts: Opportunities and limitations
The article is devoted to the study of possibilities and the limitations of a religious conflict analysis. The interest in this problem is conditioned by to the complexity of the phenomenon itself, because there is still an open question about the existence of mandatory characteristics of a conflict, which will allow to identify it as a purely religious one (Brain, 2012). Also, the complexity of the study is determined by the specifics of its development and diagnosis.This actualizes the need for the development of a conceptual and methodological framework to study the problems associated with the emergence of religious contradictions. To do this, it is necessary to integrate the main theoretical positions developed within the framework of religious studies and conflictology, and the work of practitioners engaged in research of state-confessional relations. This will accelerate the process of a religious conflict institutionalization and the development of religious conflictology as an independent branch of knowledge, and will simplify the process of its analysis (Bolshakov, 2014). The article uses neoinstitutionalism to study the stated topic.The results of the study showed that any conflict with a religious factor is unique in terms of its origin sources, the forms of interaction between the parties and consequences. This explains why religious conflicts are classified not by the sphere of manifestation, but by the specificity of subjects participating in it. They can affect any sphere of public relations (Tishkov & Shirel’man 2012). This should be taken into account when you develop the main parameters and conflict analysis variables, which are also not static and vary depending on the tasks assigned to an expert.In general, any expert should pay attention to the structural, dynamic and social-psychological characteristics of a conflict and to the type of a prevailing group perception. This will allow to perform a comprehensive analysis of a conflict and contributes to its early resolution, which is, as a rule, the main goal of conflict analysis.
