Civilizational Clash or Balderdash? The Causes of Religious Discrimination in Western and European Christian-Majority Democracies

Samuel Huntington predicted that conflict, including domestic conflict, will be more common between civilizations than within them, that the Islamic civilization will be especially violent, and that Islamic-Western conflict will be particularly intense. This study seeks to test this proposition focu...

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Main Author: Fox, Jonathan 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019
In: The review of faith & international affairs
Year: 2019, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-48
IxTheo Classification:BJ Islam
CA Christianity
KBA Western Europe
ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B clash of civilizations
B Asset-backed financing
B Anti-semitism
B Cults
B Religious Discrimination
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Summary:Samuel Huntington predicted that conflict, including domestic conflict, will be more common between civilizations than within them, that the Islamic civilization will be especially violent, and that Islamic-Western conflict will be particularly intense. This study seeks to test this proposition focusing on societal and governmental religious discrimination against 156 religious minorities in 36 European and Western Christian-majority democracies using data from the Religion and State-Minorities round 3 (RASM3) dataset. It also contrasts Huntington's predictions with predictions of three other literatures: the securitization of Islam, anti-cult policies, and anti-Semitism. The findings show that these three literatures are a better fit for explaining religious discrimination in these countries than is Huntington's "clash of civilizations" theory.
ISSN:1931-7743
Contains:Enthalten in: The review of faith & international affairs
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2019.1570754