Religious paranoia

Religious paranoia is an irrational fear of being purposefully attacked by an outside agent(s) in or through some religious context. Some examples:

The fear of one's soul being stolen
The fear of being tempted by demons
The fear of being plotted against by cultists
The fear of being a target of God or Satan

It is a condition which has been compared to extremism and intolerance.^[1] It has been cited as a possible contributor to political violence.^[2]^[3] It is often related to splitting, psychological projection, a desire to maintain a sense of purity in situations of real or perceived persecution, and rigid and unchallengeable attitudes.^[4]

In an alternate form of religious paranoia of a psychiatric nature, the patient can suffer from a permanent delusion of a primarily religious nature. He could, for example, believe that he is the messenger of God who has been sent to the world to propagate some religion.

References

↑ Field F., J. (August 8, 1999). "China’s Religious Paranoia". National Catholic Register. Retrieved November 29, 2011. External link in |publisher= (help)
↑ Presidential peril: Assassin Nation, Globe and Mail, May 31, 2008
↑ Mustaffa, Ahmad; Manaf, Abdul (January 18, 2011). "Religious paranoia can wreak havoc if unchecked". The Star. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
↑ The destructive power of religion: violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, J. Harold Ellens, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007 ISBN 0-275-99708-1, ISBN 978-0-275-99708-3

Religious persecution and discrimination

By group	Ahmadiyya Atheism Bahá'í Buddhism Catholic Christianity persecution Hinduism persecution Falun Gong Islam persecution Judaism religious antisemitism persecution Jehovah's Witness Mormonism Neopaganism Rastafari Protestantism Shi'a Islam Zoroastrianism

Methods	Censorship Deprogramming Desecration Discrimination Forced conversion Genocide Intolerance Pogrom Political abuse of psychiatry Segregation State atheism State religion Terrorism Violence War

Events	Decline of Greco-Roman polytheism Expulsion of the Moriscos Decline of Buddhism in India Decline of Hinduism in Pakistan Cromwellian conquest of Ireland Cultural Revolution French Revolutionary dechristianisation European wars of religion French Wars of Religion Inquisition 1860 Lebanon conflict The Holocaust Armenian Genocide Pontic Greek Genocide Albigensian Crusade Aragonese Crusade Northern Crusades Crusades Palestinian exodus Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries Muslim conquest in the Indian subcontinent Anti-Muslim violence in India Direct Action Day Noakhali riots Partition of India 1971 Bangladesh genocide Rape during the Bangladesh Liberation War Persecution of pagans by the Christian Roman Empire Saxon Wars Soviet persecution 1917–1921 1921–1928 1928–1941 1958–1964 1970–1987 legislation Treatment of Christians in the Eastern Bloc Kulturkampf Test Act Thirty Years' War

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Religious paranoia

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