Dzutsev, H.V., Sinelina Yu.Yu. Spread of the religious movement of Wahhabism in the republic of Northern Caucasian Federal District of the Russian Federation: ethnic and sociological analysis.

Abstract: This article is written based on ethnic and sociological studies on the issue of Wahhabism in the Republics of the Northern Caucasian Federal District of the Russian Federation, which took place in January and February of 2010 by the Northern Osetian Center for Social Studies of Institute for Social and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Northern Osetian Institute for Humanitarian and Social Studies named after V.I. Abaev. The goal of this study and this article was to find out the attitude of people in the region towards the problem of radical Wahhabism. The mass poll among the people of the North Caucasian Federal District was performed, as well as the expert poll. The materials and studies showed that the importance of Islam and number of mosque-going people grows in mono-national republics of the NCFD. The appearance of the religious, ideological and political Wahhabism movement, which supports the personal spirituality, attracts many people in the Northern Caucasus region, since they are afraid of the negative processes taking place in the region.

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