Ours is the Way of God
Religion, Identity, And Intergroup Conflict
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3918320 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey R Seul (Harvard Law School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 553-569 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343399036005004 |
| OpenAlex | W2102928162 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 135 |
| References cited | 22 |
According to social identity theory, identity competition plays a central role in the inception and escalation of intergroup conflict, even when economic and political factors also are at play. Individual and group identity competition is considered a byproduct of individuals' efforts to satisfy basic human needs, including various psychological needs. Religions often serve these psychological needs more comprehensively and potently than other repositories of cultural meaning that contribute to the construction and maintenance of individual and group identities. Religions frequently supply cosmologies, moral frameworks, institutions, rituals, traditions, and other identity-supporting content that answers to individuals' needs for psychological stability in the form of a predictable world, a sense of belonging, self-esteem, and even self-actualization. The peculiar ability of religion to serve the human identity impulse thus may partially explain why intergroup conflict so frequently occurs along religious fault lines
Aesthetics · Collective identity · Competition (biology) · Cultural identity · Feeling · Group conflict · Identity (music) · Impulse (physics) · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Politics · Religiosity · Religious identity · Social group · Social identity approach · Social identity theory · Sociology · Cultural Differences and Values · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
The Logic of Terrorism
The Role of Intra-Religious Conflicts in Intrastate Wars
Islam, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Ethiopia
Judaism and Violence
Social Identity Complexity and Immigrants’ Attitude Toward the Host Nation
Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence from Sub‐Saharan Africa
Inter‐Religious Dialogue and Peacebuilding
The 'Ambivalence of the Sacred' in Africa
The Evolution of International Security Studies
Under the Banner of Islam
Do Religious Factors Impact Armed Conflict? Empirical Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
The political pulpit
From Civil Conflict to Crusade
Perspective(s) of R. Inglehart’s Theory of Evolutionary Modernization
‘Do I pray when listening to a recorded prayer?’
Persuasive ethical appeals and climate messaging
Contagious crowds and rational faithfuls
Sacred contradictions
Do Muslim Citizens Welcome Fundamentalist Muslim Immigrants? Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment in Kazakhstan
Roadblock on the Highway to Heaven? The Effect of Religion on Cluster Development in Controversial Industries
The Rohingya Muslim in the Land of Pagoda
A dialogue with the ‘self’
Holding doctrinal belief as an artefact
How Voluntary? The Role of Community in Youth Participation in Muslim Mindanao
Political Secularism, Religion, and the State
The Unfree Exercise of Religion
A Few Poorly Organized Men
On Religiosity and Super-religiosity (I)
Christianization as a Challenge for Islamic Daʿwah in Indonesia
Factors affecting attitudes toward migrants—An evolutionary approach
Ethno-religious Conflicts and the Elusive Quest for National Identity in Nigeria
Islam and identity
Why Boko Haram Exists
Christianity is not just about religion
The deification of historical figures and the emergence of priesthoods as a solution to a network coordination problem
What do we know about religion and interreligious peace? A review of the quantitative literature
The Metaphor of House and Post-Colonial Identity Formation in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi
Shanghai 5 and the emerging alliance in Central Asia
Religiosity and Spirituality Among Members of an African American Church Community
Conceptual and Action Frameworks for Peace
The impact of religious identity on intergroup encounters
Religion und Wohlfahrtsstaat in Europa – eine ambivalente Liaison
Revisiting conquest in classical Swahili war epics
Living in Fear
Immigrants’ National Identification
Correlates of Peace
Does Religious Discrimination Promote Dissent? A Quantitative Analysis
Religious Discrimination and International Crises
Psychological Well-being Among Religious and Spiritual-identified Young Gay and Bisexual Men
Religious Globalisms in the Post-Secular Age
The Clash of Identities
Islamic principles of conflict management
Into the Iris
Framing Political Violence
Identity, Ideology and Child Soldiering
The ethnic‐religious nexus
Is Ethnoreligious Conflict a Contagious Disease
From Mecca with tolerance
Central Asian Encounters in the Middle East
Polarization or bridging? Responses of Muslim and non-Muslim organizations to criticism of Islam in the Netherlands
Normative Management and Diversity in International Non-government Organizations
Assessing violent nonstate actorness in global politics
Religion and Identity De/Construction among Forced Migrants
Conditional cross-border effects of terrorism in China
Reflections on religious nationalism, conflict and schooling in developing democracies
Which dimensions of religiosity matter for trust? New insights from the Mena region
The struggle to be seen
Nationalism and state legitimation in contemporary China
Campus preachers as gatekeepers of eternity
Religious Group Relations Among Christian, Muslim and Nonreligious Early Adolescents in the Netherlands
Just as much as there is Islamophobia, there is racism
Faith, Flight and Foreign Policy
Inter-religious feelings of Sunni and Alevi Muslim minorities
How positive and negative contact experiences relate to identification and acculturation of persons with a migration background
Host national and religious identification among Turkish Muslims in Western Europe
Unworthy victims and threatening adversaries
Religion and World Change
Age-structured social interactions enhance radicalization
Multidimensional Identity Cleavages and Religious Discrimination
The Unifying and Divisive Effects of Social Identities
Religious Identity and Consumption
Relationships Between Religion and Intolerance Towards Muslims and Immigrants in Europe
Street Culture Meets Extremism
Political and personal religious attitudes
Kidnapping in Nigeria
Multiple Identities and Religious Transmission
I stand up for us
Ethnic Inequality and the Dismantling of Democracy
Religion and the Regime
The Challenger’s Winning Coalition
Restrictions on the Religious Practices of Religious Minorities
Who Is Afraid of EU Enlargement? A Multilevel Comparative Analysis
Sensitive Issues, Complex Categories, and Sharing Festivals
Horizontal Inequality, Crosscutting Cleavages, and Civil War
Bad Religion? Religion, Collective Action, and the Onset of Armed Conflict in Developing Countries
Local Religious Institutions and the Impact of Interethnic Inequality on Conflict
Beyond Dualism
Determinants of Support for EU Membership in Turkey
The ethno-violence nexus
Faith in Contention
The New Cold War?
Minorities at risk
Personal Identity, National Identity and International Relations
Coping with Threatened Identities
Theories of intergroup relations
Ethnonationalism
Studies in Contemporary Jewry
The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behavior
The New Cold War
Belief, ethnicity, and nationalism
Identity and Religion
Preference for accuracy and posititvity in the description of oneself by another
Pluralism and Identity, Studies in Ritual Behaviour
Religious Resurgence and Politics in the Contemporary World
Identity and the Sacred
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
The Rites of Passage
Jesus Says, 'Order, Children
| Unique citing works | 135 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,19 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2026 (27) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 133 |