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Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies

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Availability:In StockContributor:G?nes Murat Tezc?rSeries:Religion and ConflictPublish date:2024-04-15Pages:270
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501774683ISBN-10:1501774689UPC:9781501774683Book Category:Political Science, Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Religion, Politics & State, Violence in Society, IslamBook Topic:HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8907Product ID:SC8THCFY8J

Liminal Minorities addresses the question of why some religious minorities provoke the ire of majoritarian groups and become targets of organized violence, even though they lack significant power and pose no political threat. G?neş Murat Tezc?r argues that these faith groups are stigmatized across generations, as they lack theological recognition and social acceptance from the dominant religious group. Religious justifications of violence have a strong mobilization power when directed against liminal minorities, which makes these groups particularly vulnerable to mass violence during periods of political change.

Offering the first comparative-historical study of mass atrocities against religious minorities in Muslim societies, Tezc?r focuses on two case studies--the Islamic State's genocidal attacks against the Yezidis in northern Iraq in the 2010s and massacres of Alevis in Turkey in the 1970s and 1990s--while also addressing discrimination and violence against followers of the Bah?'? faith in Iran and Ahmadis in Pakistan and Indonesia. Analyzing a variety of original sources, including interviews with survivors and court documents, Tezc?r reveals how religious stigmatization and political resentment motivate ordinary people to participate in mass atrocities.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Cornell University PressISBN-13:9781501774683ISBN-10:1501774689UPC:9781501774683Book Category:Political Science, Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Religion, Politics & State, Violence in Society, IslamBook Topic:HistorySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.8907Product ID:SC8THCFY8J

Güneş Murat Tezcür is the Director of the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of Muslim Reformers in Iran and Turkey and the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics.


Publisher: Cornell University Press

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