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Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies (Religion and Conflict) - Softcover

Buch 4 von 4: Religion and Conflict

Tezcr, Gnes Murat

 
9781501774683: Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies (Religion and Conflict)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1501774689 ISBN 13: 9781501774683
Verlag: Cornell University Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

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. Günes 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Günes Murat Tezcür is the Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics.

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Verlag
Cornell University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1501774689
ISBN 13 
9781501774683
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
254
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