INTERCONFESSIONAL CONFLICT AS A PHENOMENON OF SOCIAL REALITY IN TIMES OF WAR
Keywords:
interfaith conflict, religious identity, war, trust, social reality, philosophy of religionAbstract
This article presents a philosophical analysis of interfaith conflicts during wartime. The aim of the study is to identify the ontological, anthropological, and axiological dimensions of interfaith conflict and to determine its role in the structure of social reality under wartime conditions. It is argued that wartime radically transforms social reality, as a result of which interfaith relations take on not only a religious but also a worldview, political, identity, and value-based character.
Within the framework of an ontological approach, interfaith conflict is examined as a form of constructing social reality linked to the formation of collective identities, symbolic boundaries, and social hierarchies. In the philosophical-anthropological dimension, the article analyzes the transformation of religious identity, the phenomenon of trust in religious institutions, the psychological and behavioral mechanisms of interfaith interaction, as well as the processes of radicalization of religious consciousness in wartime conditions. In the axiological dimension, interfaith conflict is interpreted as a conflict of value systems and moral interpretations of war, justice, violence, responsibility, and freedom.
The scientific novelty of this study lies in a comprehensive philosophical analysis of interfaith conflict as a multidimensional phenomenon that integrates ontological, anthropological, and axiological levels of analysis, as well as in the examination of interfaith conflict not merely as a social contradiction, but as a mechanism for constructing social reality, identities, and value systems during wartime.
It is concluded that during wartime, interconfessional conflicts become an important factor in the formation of collective identity, social mobilization, and the symbolic demarcation of social groups, and understanding them requires an interdisciplinary approach that combines social philosophy, philosophical anthropology, axiology, and conflict studies.
