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Religious identification and interreligious contact in Indonesia and the Philippines: Testing the mediating roles of perceived group threat and social dominance orientation and the moderating role of context
Authors:Agnieszka Kanas  Peer Scheepers  Carl Sterkens
Affiliation:1. Department of Sociology, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;2. Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;3. Department of Empirical Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Abstract:This study integrates three theoretical perspectives provided by social identity theory, realistic group conflict theory, and social dominance theory to examine the relationship between religious identification and interreligious contact. It relies on a unique dataset collected among Christian and Muslim students in ethnically and religiously diverse regions of Indonesia and the Philippines, where social cleavages occur along religious lines. Religious identification directly predicts a higher quality of interreligious contact, whereas it indirectly predicts a lower quantity and quality of contact, mediated by higher perception of group threat, and a higher quality of contact, mediated by lower social dominance orientation. Furthermore, these direct and indirect relationships are moderated by religious group membership and relative group size. We conclude that religious identification functions as a ‘double‐edged sword’ predicting both higher quality and lower quantity and quality of interreligious contact through various pathways and with a varying strength depending on intergroup context.
Keywords:intergroup contact and conflict  religious identification  perceived group threat  social dominance orientation
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