“…These results from the empirical literature are consistent with the comparative literature that has linked religious factors to a wide range of conflict types and other political phenomena including legitimacy (Lewy, 1974, 550-551;Johnston and Figa, 1988, 32-34), people's world views (Geertz, 1973;Greely, 1982;Juergensmeyer, 1993), terrorism (Hoffman, 1995, Rapoport, 1984, 1988, genocide (Fein, 1990, 49), ethnic cleansing (Osiander, 2000, 785), conflict management (Appleby, 2000;Gopin, 2000;Abu-Nimer, 2001), identity (Seul, 1999, 558;Voye, 1999), nationalism (Smith, 1999(Smith, , 2000, the formation of the modern Westphalian state system (Philpott, 2000), international diplomacy (Johnston and Sampson, 1994), democracy (Oommen, 1994;and Fox, 1998, 58-59) (Hardacre, 1993), environmentalism (Taylor, 1998), perceptions of the nature of human rights ( Van der Vyver, 1996), public school policy (Wayland, 1997), and economics (Kuran, 1991;Rosser, 1993). Studies based on survey data have also linked religion to political behavior and attitudes.…”