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.
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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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