Addressing religious intolerance in an increasingly illiberal world

2020 ◽  
pp. 285-302
Author(s):  
Barbara Ann Rieffer-Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Religious Intolerance

Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan*

2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 1883-1925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland G. Fryer ◽  
Steven D. Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Ku Klux Klan ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Multilevel Marketing ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Terrorist Organization ◽  
Sales Agents

Abstract In this article, we analyze the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, those who joined it, and its social and political impact by combining a wide range of archival data sources with data from the 1920 and 1930 U.S censuses. We find that individuals who joined the Klan in some cities were more educated and more likely to hold professional jobs than the typical American. Surprisingly, we find little evidence that the Klan had an effect on black or foreign-born residential mobility or vote totals. Rather than a terrorist organization, the 1920s Klan is best described as social organization with a very successful multilevel marketing structure fueled by an army of highly incentivized sales agents selling hatred, religious intolerance, and fraternity in a time and place where there was tremendous demand.

Solidarity, the Common Good and Social Justice in the Catholic Social Teaching within the Framework of Globalization

2016 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-31
Author(s):  
Rochus-Antonin (Roman) Gruijters
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Human Person ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
Academic Level ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Moral Perspective ◽  
The Common ◽  
Religious Problems ◽  
Globalized World

This article argues that when globalization is accompanied by such problems as religious intolerance, social injustice, poverty, disrespect for the human dignity and oppression, Catholics should address these challenges on a social and an academic level. The Catholic social tradition, as the single bearer of reflection on the meaning of the common good, envisions the idea of this common good in particularly useful ways by linking it to concepts of solidarity and justice. Furthermore, the Catholic Social Doctrine offers a vision of humanity which rejects intolerance and violence and proclaims that human life is sacred and that the dignity of the human person should be the foundation of a moral vision for society. In short, this article will expand how – from a Catholic intellectual and moral perspective on a globalized world – the concept of bonum commune can address contemporary social, cultural and religious problems.

Bangladesh: Religious Intolerance in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Christine Fair ◽  
Parina Patel
Keyword(s):  
Religious Intolerance

Cameroon: the radicalization of Islam and the expansion of Boko Haram

2021 ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Tatyana S. Denisova
Keyword(s):  
Political Conflict ◽  
Political Life ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
The North ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
Specific Interpretation ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Military

The radicalization of Islam in Cameroon is quickly changing the country's religious landscape and contributing to the spread of religious intolerance. Unlike, for example, neighboring Nigeria and the Central African Republic, previously Cameroon rarely faced serious manifestations of sectarian tensions, but over the past 10-15 years traditional Sufi Islam has been increasingly supplanted by the ideology of Wahhabism. Wahhabism is rapidly spreading not only in the north of the country, but also in the south, which until recently was inhabited mainly by Christians and animists. The spread of Wahhabism is actively supported and funded by Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Egypt. Sufism, the followers of which mainly include Fulani living in the northern regions, is gradually losing its position. The specific interpretation of Islam leads to the destabilization of religious and public political life, and Koranic schools and refugee camps become "incubators of terrorists". The growing influence of radical Islam in Cameroon is largely due to the expansion of the terrorist organization Boko Haram into the country; one of the consequences of this is the broadening affiliation of Cameroonians, inspired by calls for the cleansing of Islam and the introduction of Sharia law, with this armed Islamist group. As in other African countries, the radicalization of Islam is accompanied by the intensification of terrorist activities, leading to an exacerbation of the internal political situation, an increase in the number of refugees, and the deterioration of the socio-economic situation of the population, etc. The failure of the Cameroonian government to counter terrorist activities in the north of the country in the near future may lead to an escalation of the military-political conflict on religious grounds in the context of political instability that Cameroon is experiencing at the moment.

scholarly journals Theorizing Desecularization of the Military: The United States and Israel

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yagil Levy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Military Chaplains ◽  
External Constraints ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Religious Services ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
The Military ◽  
Religious Actors

This article addresses scholarly deficiencies in identifying the conditions under which the desecularization of militaries takes place. To theorize this process, two militaries are studied, the United States and Israel. Arguably, six drivers sequentially generate the desecularization of the militaries: (1) Militaries largely mirror the growing influence of religion in the broader society. However, intramilitary drivers play their role in promoting/mitigating the extra-military mechanisms of desecularization. Thus, (2) organizational interests along with external constraints drive militaries to promote religious diversity, which may (3) lead to the empowerment of religious actors, and thereby to further desecularization through religious intolerance, and to (4) reliance on the spiritual and religious services provided by military chaplains, and jointly stimulate (5) the use of religion to motivate military sacrifice. By religiously increasing the symbolic value of military sacrifice, (6) religiosity becomes more naturally associated with good soldiering, thereby reshaping intramilitary hierarchies and, hence, further triggering desecularization.

scholarly journals Manifestações Religiosas no Espaço Acadêmico: Interferências no Processo Pedagógico

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 163
Author(s):  
Claudia Neves da Silva ◽  
Júlia Mirian Teruel ◽  
Alessandra Tosti da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
State University ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
School Environments ◽  
University Environment ◽  
Evangelical Churches ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Scientific Environment

Cotidianamente se pode observar manifestações religiosas em diferentes locais e ocasiões – escolas, festas, pessoas trajando roupas e/ou símbolos, que expõem suas crenças. Ademais, temas referentes à religião, à religiosidade e ao pertencimento religioso têm sido, constantemente, debatidos em diferentes meios, como artigos em periódicos, programas televisivos, livros. Foi então que alguns questionamentos surgiram: como essa demonstração da fé se apresenta no espaço da ciência, ou seja, em uma universidade? Como as manifestações religiosas interferem no processo pedagógico? Para responder a estas indagações se realizou uma investigação, cujo objetivo é verificar como a demonstração de fé se apresenta dentro de um espaço laico e de natureza científica. A presente comunicação tem por finalidade apresentar algumas formas que os jovens expõem e vivenciam sua fé dentro de espaços universitários e propor debates interdisciplinares sobre a intolerância religiosa, que vem se manifestando nos espaços escolares. Utilizou-se a Universidade Estadual de Londrina - UEL como campo de pesquisa e delimitou-se a amostra aos estudantes participantes dos Grupos de Oração GOU – de vertente católica – e o Pocket – cujos membros pertencem às igrejas evangélicas - que se encontram, semanalmente, nos espaços da UEL. Como resultados preliminares se pode destacar que a religiosidade é presente na vida cotidiana dos jovens universitários, os quais promovem a conciliação entre religião e ciência.Palavras-chave: Universidade. Manifestações Religiosas. Grupos de OraçãoAbstractDaily religious manifestations are observed in different places and occasions - schools, parties, people wearing clothes or symbols that expose their beliefs. Moreover, issues related to religion, religiosity and religious belonging have been constantly debated in different media, such as journal articles, television programs, books. Then some questions arose: how is this demonstration presented in an university environment? How do religious manifestations interfere with the educational process? To answer these questions an investigation was carried out whose purpose is to observe how faith demonstration is presented in a secular and scientific environment. This Communication aims to present some ways that expose youth and experience their faith within university environments and propose interdisciplinary debates on religious intolerance that has been manifested in school environments. State University of Londrina – UEL was used as a research field and limited our sample to participating GOU prayer’s students groups – the Catholic side - and the Pocket - whose members belong to evangelical churches - which meet weekly at UEL’s environments. As preliminary results, it is pointed out that religion is present in College students’ everyday, which promotes the reconciliation betweenreligion and science.Keywords: University. Religious manifestations. Prayer Groups

scholarly journals Nigeria and the Challenges of Internal Security in the 21st Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Chris I. Nwagboso
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
National Security Policy ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
Internal Security ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Security Challenges

This paper examines the various internal security challenges confronting Nigeria in the 21st century. The paper adopts historical method and content analysis to investigate how the abysmal failure of the poorly formulated and ineffectively implemented National Security Policy has hitherto exacerbated internal security challenges in Nigeria. The paper further attempts a critical review of major internal security challenges hitherto confronting the country; such as the Niger Delta crises, kidnapping in the South-East geo-political zone, Jos crises, Boko Haram crises and crises by Fulani Herdsmen in the Northern part of Nigeria. The result of the analysis shows that these internal security challenges have not only been difficult to address by the National Security Policy, but have also impacted negatively on the country's desired socio-economic development in the 21st century. The paper, therefore, recommends among others, the need for a careful review of the Nigeria's National Security Policy that will not only be integrative/comprehensive in outlook, but will also take cognizance of some domestic factors that are currently responsible for internal security problems in the country; such as unemployment, inequality, poverty, fraudulent electoral process, corruption, skewed federalism, porous nature of the Nigeria’s borders, sabotage among politicalelites, bad governance, religious intolerance, citizen-settler controversies, among others.

scholarly journals Citizenship Education for Liberation in Nigeria

1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
JO Ogunbiyi ◽  
OS Oludeyi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Democratic Governance ◽  
Civic Consciousness ◽  
Political Crises ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
The World ◽  
Low Levels

Across the globe, nations face a problem of low levels of civic consciousness and prevalence of harmful stereotypes like ethno-religious intolerance, prejudice and crises. In many parts of the world, these have degenerated into political crises, youth hooliganisms, prostitution, examinations malpractices, rape victimisation, terrorism and national insecurity. In the Nigerian context, these vices truncate the practical and transparent democratic governance while threatening the country’s federalism and cohesion. Since the purpose of any functional education is to enlighten and liberate the beneficiaries, ensuring that they live a sustainable life while contributing meaningfully to the upkeep of their immediate community, this paper takes a look at citizenship liberation using qualitative civic education. It examines, inter alia, the aims and objectives of qualitative citizenship education and how the principles of civic education can be instilled in the citizens for liberation and peaceful co-existence. The paper further discusses how the spirit of patriotism, unity, love and oneness can be installed in the minds of Nigerians and how they can serve as a lubricant to the wheel of socio-political and economic progress of the nation through adequate citizenship education.Keywords: Higher education for development; Sustainability; Lifelong learning.

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