Multidimensional Identity Cleavages and Religious Discrimination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10071469 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nikola Mirilovic (0000-0002-9705-2629, University of Central Florida), Ariel Zellman (0000-0003-1106-1282, Bar-Ilan University), Jonathan Fox (0000-0002-0422-7275, Bar-Ilan University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1741-1768 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Conflict Resolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0027 • E-ISSN: 1552-8766 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00220027251324465 |
| OpenAlex | W4408350137 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 108 |
To what extent does minority distinctiveness from the majority mitigate or exacerbate discrimination? Similarities between majority and minority groups may reduce societal and political discrimination. Yet shared identities along one cleavage coupled with distinctive characteristics along another may also render commonalities salient for inter-group competition and conflict. We examine how cross-cuttingness of group-level religious identity with ethnicity, geographic concentration, and economic class influences societal religious discrimination (SRD) and governmental religious discrimination (GRD) against religious minorities at the state level. We find that greater cross-cuttingness of religion and ethnicity leads to decreased SRD and GRD. Yet while more cross-cutting geographic distributions of religious groups correlate with lower SRD and higher GRD, greater economic cross-cuttingness between religious groups correlates with higher SRD and lower GRD. These findings offer a nuanced theoretical and empirical bridge to understand discrimination, as social and political behaviors between individual expressions of societal prejudice and intergroup violent conflict
Aesthetics · Identity (music · Political economy · Political science · Religiosity · Religious discrimination · Religious identity · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology
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Ethnic Polarization, Potential Conflict, and Civil Wars
Multiple Social Categorization
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The link between identification and in‐group favouritism
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Relative Deprivation
Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations
The Geography of Ethnic Violence
The New Cold War
The Varieties of Religious Repression
Religious Minorities at Risk
The Unfree Exercise of Religion
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Social Identity Complexity
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |