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The pacifying effects of local religious institutions: an analysis of communal violence in Indonesia
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Abstract This paper tests whether local religious institutions have a dampening effect on the probability of communal violence.
It argues that a dense layer of institutions strengthens horizontal and vertical contacts and networks within religious
communities. Horizontal linkages help to bridge social, eco... mehr
This paper tests whether local religious institutions have a dampening effect on the probability of communal violence.
It argues that a dense layer of institutions strengthens horizontal and vertical contacts and networks within religious
communities. Horizontal linkages help to bridge social, economic, and ethnic divisions. Vertical contacts enable religious
leaders to stay informed about communal grievances among their followers and to coordinate conflict resolution
attempts. In our analysis of more than 60,000 villages in Indonesia, we are able to document a statistically significant
and substantively meaningful negative effect of the density of local religious institutions on the probability of mass
fighting. This effect is robust to the inclusion of an exhaustive list of confounding variables and alternative measures
of violence. We present additional evidence that this pacifying effect of religious institutions is weaker or absent in
conflicts that evolve along explicitly religious cleavages.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Südostasien; Mediation; Indonesien; Konfliktregelung; Entwicklungsland; Religion; Religionsgemeinschaft; Institutionalisierung; ethnische Beziehungen
Klassifikation
Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, Sicherheitspolitik
Religionssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
local religious institutions
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2015
Seitenangabe
S. 211-224
Zeitschriftentitel
Political Research Quarterly, 68 (2015) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912915578460
ISSN
1938-274X
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Deposit Licence - Keine Weiterverbreitung, keine Bearbeitung
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