{"id":19954,"date":"2022-01-18T15:03:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T14:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/?post_type=article&#038;p=19954"},"modified":"2026-07-24T19:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:41:39","slug":"religious-radicalization-process-of-a-controversial-concept","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/pluriel.fuce.eu\/en\/article\/religious-radicalization-process-of-a-controversial-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious radicalization. Process of a controversial concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction :<\/p>\n<p>I would like to seize the opportunity of my first participation to the Mediterranean website to raise the issue of radicalisation as a concept, which has permeated the political and media discourse in Europe in general, and particularly in France, since the attacks of 11 September<a href=\"https:\/\/www.redesm.org\/2021\/09\/19\/religious-radicalization-process-of-a-controversial-concept\/#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a>. Today, the notion is widely used to grasp the phenomena of violence, while its relevance and legitimacy as a notion belonging to the security agenda remains rather controversial.<\/p>\n<p>What exactly is radicalisation in the French context?\u00a0 How has the term become a structuring element of political and media discourse when it comes to violence against civilians in the name of Islam?\u00a0\u00a0 Is it legitimate to over-determine the religious and the Islamic categories of a notion that has long belonged to political and social movements?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.redesm.org\/2021\/09\/19\/religious-radicalization-process-of-a-controversial-concept\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the article on REDESM.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19944,"template":"","class_list":["post-19954","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"date_tournage":"","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Religious radicalization. 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