What is it about?

Positive attitudes towards own religious group as well as negative attitudes towards the religious outgroup seem to drive people towards supporting interreligious conflict. Be that as it may, universal religious values found in all world religions seem to weaken the support.

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Why is it important?

Indonesia, being the largest Muslim-populated country and the fourth largest democratic country, is the best example of how interreligious harmony thrives in a non-religious based country. Hence, the mounting prevalence of current interreligious conflicts in the region is critical to investigate in order to gain meaningful insights into the roles of religion in increasing or decreasing the support for interreligious conflicts.

Perspectives

This article adopts a well-known line of thought, in which religion makes and unmakes latent interreligious conflicts (i.e. Allport, 1979). Although it has been more than half a decade ago that religion is shown to play contradictory roles in interreligious conflicts, the seminal line of thought is still very much relevant today. To my best knowledge, this article provides deeper insights into the role religion has in interreligious conflicts that no previous study on the field has provided. Thus, this article offers a great additional understanding to the literature and also to individuals who advocate interreligious harmony.

Tery Setiawan
Radboud Universiteit

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This page is a summary of: The relation between religiosity dimensions and support for interreligious conflict in Indonesia, Archive for the Psychology of Religion, October 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0084672419878824.
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