Texts of religious nature with an extremist-terrorist focus as an object of hermeneutic research and a source of forensically significant information in judicial linguistic expertise

The relevance of the chosen research topic is due to the growing need of investigative and judicial practice in the research of speech works of religious discourse in connection with the rise of extremist sentiments in modern society. Despite the obvious need for expert practice in the development of scientific and methodological support for the examination of texts of religious content, to date they have been poorly studied in terms of their potential conflict. This led to the novelty of the studied topic and its practical significance. The purpose of the work is to study the problems of using special linguistic knowledge in cases of verbal religious extremism, namely the problems of the theoretical aspect of forensic examination of religious materials (texts of religious discourse) with extremist-terrorist focus. To accomplish the tasks, a corpus of sources on judicial linguistics (judicial verbal studies), judicial expertology, Russian and foreign legislation, international legal acts, and expert and judicial practice were used. The author gives his own concept of the relationship between the concepts of «verbal (verbal) extremism», «hate speech» and «verbal religious extremism», highlighting the range of articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation containing offenses correlated with these phenomena. The paper examines the problem of competence of linguistic experts involved in this category of cases, as well as the problem of the limits of their competence.