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Faith and Friendship: Religious Bonding and Interfaith Relations in Muslim Countries
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Sumaktoyo, Nathanael Gratias |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | Studies have documented more negative attitudes and a higher level of social hostilities toward religious minorities in Muslim than in non-Muslim countries. I seek to explain what contributes to these poor interfaith relations. Diverging from the mainstream approaches that focus on cultural, institutional, or psychological explanations, I argue that the poorer interfaith relations in Muslim countries are driven by high levels of religious bonding or religiously homogeneous friendships among Muslims in these countries. Analyzing a global survey of more than 17,000 Muslims and a report documenting how religious groups in a country restrict or discriminate against each other, I show that religious bonding is related to more negative attitudes toward religious minorities, that a country's level of religious bonding is positively related to its level of social hostilities, and that religious bonding is indeed higher among Muslims in Muslim countries than among Catholics in Catholic-majority Latin American countries. |
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| Ending Page | 662 |
| Page Count | 29 |
| Starting Page | 634 |
| ISSN | 17550483 |
| e-ISSN | 17550491 |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1755048320000589 |
| Journal | Politics and Religion |
| Issue Number | 4 |
| Volume Number | 14 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
| Publisher Date | 2020-11-24 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Politics and Religion Political Science Religious Bonding Muslim Countries Interfaith Relations Negative Attitudes Social Hostilities |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Religious Studies |
