Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/234831 
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2021
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[Journal:] Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion [ISSN:] 1468-5906 [Volume:] 60 [Issue:] 3 [Publisher:] Wiley [Place:] Oxford [Year:] 2021 [Pages:] 590-610
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Wiley, Oxford
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Considering intensifying sectarian conflicts in recent years and increasing interreligious violence around the globe, there is a need to further our understanding of negative attitudes toward religious out-groups. To investigate the driving factors behind these negative attitudes among members of the three major Abrahamic religions, I employ original data derived from a survey fielded among 10,046 respondents in eight countries (Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey, and the USA). A rich body of literature documents the relationship between religious fundamentalism and prejudice. Other scholars have investigated out-group hostility using an intergroup relations perspective, focusing on contact theory, and more recently, on discrimination. While controlling for other relevant factors such as demographic and socioeconomic variables, I investigate the role of religiosity and intergroup relations in explaining unfavorable interreligious attitudes. The results suggest that unfavorable attitudes toward religious out-groups are most strongly associated with religious fundamentalism. This finding is robust across religious groups.
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fundamentalism
out-group hostility
Islam
Christianity
Judaism
attitudes
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