RT Book
T1 Liminal minorities: religious difference and mass violence in Muslim societies
T2 Religion and conflict
A1 Tezcür, Güneş Murat 1979-
LA English
PP Ithaca London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2024
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1866005103
AB Liminal Minorities addresses the question of why some religious minorities provoke the ire of majoritarian groups and become targets of organized violence, even though they lack significant power and pose no political threat. Güneş Murat Tezcür argues that these faith groups are stigmatized across generations, as they lack theological recognition and social acceptance from the dominant religious group. Religious justifications of violence have a strong mobilization power when directed against liminal minorities, which makes these groups particularly vulnerable to mass violence during periods of political change. Offering the first comparative-historical study of mass atrocities against religious minorities in Muslim societies, Tezcür focuses on two case studies - the Islamic State's genocidal attacks against the Yezidis in northern Iraq in the 2010s and massacres of Alevis in Turkey in the 1970s and 1990s - while also addressing discrimination and violence against followers of the Bahá'í faith in Iran and Ahmadis in Pakistan and Indonesia. Analyzing a variety of original sources, including interviews with survivors and court documents, Tezcür reveals how religious stigmatization and political resentment motivate ordinary people to participate in mass atrocities.
AB "Why do some religious minorities, lacking any significant power and presenting no imminent threat, become targets of violent attacks? This book is a comparative-historical study of mass atrocities targeting liminal minorities including Yezidis in Iraq in the 2010s and Alevis in Turkey in the late twentieth century"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 209-243, Register
CN HN768.Z9
SN 978-1-5017-7468-3
SN 978-1-5017-7467-6
K1 Religious Minorities : Violence against : Islamic countries
K1 Political Violence : Religious aspects : Islam
K1 Muslims : Persecutions : Islamic countries
K1 Religious Discrimination : Islamic countries
K1 Religious Tolerance : Islam