What Do We Know about Religion and Interreligious Peace? A Review of the Quantitative Literature
Interreligious relations remain an important dimension of humancoexistence as the increase in religiously motivated violence anddiscrimination shows clearly. Building on a new concept of interreligious peacethat includes but exceeds the absence of interreligious physical violence, Julia Köbrich and Lisa Hoffmann, in their article for
GIGA Hamburg, provide a systematic review of 83 quantitativeempirical studies examining religious determinants of interreligious physicalviolence, hostile attitudes, threat perceptions, trust, and cooperation. Their resultsshow the need for: more conceptual clarity, replication in different contexts,research on dimensions of religion beyond identities, and better integration ofdifferent strands of literature.
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