Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods before Me

Fox, Jonathan

doi:10.1017/9781108773171

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“…Like more general forms of discrimination, faith-based discrimination divides people into insiders and outsiders, in this case on the basis of one's religious tradition. Whereas the religious traditions and beliefs of majority traditions receive protection and often preferential treatment by the state, minority faith traditions are suppressed through official laws and policies (Fox 2016(Fox , 2020Fox and Torpor 2021;Grim and Finke 2010). The experience of discrimination, in turn, generates and reinforces a sense of marginalization and creates grievances.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first and most obvious way states discriminate against minorities entails straightforward restrictions on the religious practices of minority communities. Such restrictions can include limitations on public religious observances, private religious observances, rites of passage, dietary laws, religious publications, access to holy sites, or the wearing of religious symbols or clothing in public (Fox 2020). Limitations on foundational faith-based practices such as these can result in minorities sensing a fundamental threat to their ways of life, developing hostile feelings towards the perpetrators of these policies, and solidifying in-group cohesion.…”

Section: Three Ways Religious Discrimination Encourages Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In line with the hypotheses above, we examine the effect of three theoretically central independent variables of interest, all of which have been taken from the Religion and State Project (Fox 2008(Fox , 2015(Fox , 2016(Fox , 2019b(Fox , 2020. First is a measure of restrictions on minority religious practices (Restrict_Religious_Practices).…”

Section: Independent Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This variable is sourced from the Historical Index of Ethnic Fractionalization Dataset. We also include a covariate for the number of religious minorities in a country (Religious_Minorities) sourced from the Religion and State Project (Fox 2008(Fox , 2015(Fox , 2016(Fox , 2019b(Fox , 2020. It is expected that countries with more religious groups and resulting social divisions witness greater hostilities.…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Political leaders, though, have struggled to design policies for effectively dealing with this new reality, especially with respect to assimilating and protecting minority communities (Kirkham 2013). The default position of many governments has been to restrict the activities of religious minorities, ostensibly for the sake of preserving national unity in the face of this increasing diversity, as political leaders often see their states as inextricably intertwined with historically dominant religious traditions (Fox 2016(Fox , 2020Fox and Akbaba 2015a;Turner 2007).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Faith-Based Discrimination and Violent Religious Hostilities: A Global Analysis

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Wadidi

2023

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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Several studies have found restrictions on minority faith-based communities to be related to the onset of violent religious hostilities. Absent from this work, though, is a consideration of the fact that minority religious discrimination can take different forms, and, consequently, may encourage violence in different ways. This paper seeks to fill this void by examining different forms of minority religious restrictions and their relationship to religious violence. Specifically, we analyze the comparative strength of three basic types of religious discrimination—restrictions on minority religious practices, restrictions on minority religious institutions, and restrictions on conversion and proselytizing—on violence carried out by both religious majority groups and religious minority groups. Interestingly, our analysis shows all three forms of restrictions encourage violence from religious majorities, but not from minorities. We supplement the statistical analysis with a case study of faith-based discrimination and violent religious hostilities in India.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Three Ways Religious Discrimination Encourages Violencementioning

confidence: 99%