Department for History and Art History, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Department of Psychology and School of Law, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Curr Opin Psychol. 2021 Aug;40:56-60. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2020.08.028. Epub 2020 Sep 10.
In this article, we review the psychology of religion and radicalization. In doing so, we note that both macro-level approaches (that study structural conditions in society) and micro-level approaches (that focus on psychological coping and personal appraisal of individual conditions) fail to adequately explain radical behavior of members of extreme religious groups. Instead, we propose that meso-level approaches best explain religious radicalization. These meso-level approaches explain how members of extreme religious groups appraise societal conditions and find redemption in radical beliefs. In particular, we argue for a more in-depth examination of the historical and societal contexts in which various radicalization processes take place and narratives of radical redemption hold sway.
本文回顾了宗教与激进化心理学。在此过程中，我们注意到，宏观层面的方法（研究社会中的结构性条件）和微观层面的方法（关注心理应对和个人对个人条件的评估）都不能充分解释极端宗教团体成员的激进行为。相反，我们提出中观层面的方法最能解释宗教激进化。这些中观层面的方法解释了极端宗教团体的成员如何评估社会条件，并在激进信仰中找到救赎。具体来说，我们主张更深入地考察各种激进化过程发生的历史和社会背景，以及激进救赎的叙事。
