Conceptualizing the Religious Dimensions of Armed Conflicts: A Response to “Shrouded: Islam, War, and Holy War in Southeast Asia”

Svensson, Isak

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“… 6. For a recent discussion about challenges, possibilities, and alternatives for conceptualizing religious dimensions of armed conflicts, see Barter and Zatkin-Osburn (2016) and Svensson (2016). …”

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Disputes over the Divine

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Nilsson

2017

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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This article introduces the Religion and Armed Conflict (RELAC) data, 1975 to 2015, which is a new data set suitable for analyzing the causes, dynamics, and resolution of religious conflicts. It contains information about key religious dimensions of conflicts: whether the issue at stake is religious, the actors’ religious identity, and fine-grained data about the type and salience of religious claims. The article presents the major features of the data set and describes patterns and trends that shed new light on religious conflicts, for example, by demonstrating that conflicts over Islamist claims have become more prevalent. We also illustrate the utility of the data. For instance, we show that there is great variation in lethality across conflicts with different types of Islamist claims, thereby offering a more nuanced understanding of the deadliness of religious conflicts. RELAC should be a valuable resource for scholars, examining religious dimensions of intrastate armed conflicts.

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Disputes over the Divine

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Nilsson

2017

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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“…Though this theory has since been challenged as highly Western-focused and Christian-centric (e.g., Casanova 2011;Esposito 2010;Berger 1999), narrowly scoped on the exceptional cases of the United States and Western Europe, counter-evidence from macro-level data shows continued global religious affiliation (e.g., Conway and Spruyt 2018;Keysar 2017;Stonawski et al 2015;Stark and Finke 2000;Finke and Bader 2017;Grim and Finke 2010). Additional examples of macro-level approaches include: Studies of overall demographic trends, such as the relationship between infant mortality rates and religiosity (e.g., Verona et al 2010); religiosity and gender (Iyer and Joshi 2013); and religiosity and violence (e.g., Svensson 2016;Barter and Zatkin-Osburn 2014;Basedau et al 2011).…”

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“…The remaining 10 macro-level studies, the included countries were: China (2), Taiwan (1), North Korea (2), Sri Lanka (2), India (1), Iran (1), Iraq (1), Lebanon (1), and Pakistan (1). The remaining publication types included one conference paper and 13 articles in these journals: Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (10), Sociology of Islam (1), Field Methods (1), and Voluntas (1): (Lee 2018;Susewind 2015;Barter and Zatkin-Osburn 2014;Buckley and Mantilla 2013;Conway and Spruyt 2018;Lu and Gao 2018;Luria et al 2017;Mataic 2018;Svensson 2016;Van Heuvelen 2014;Woods 2012;Wright and Palmer 2018;Acevedo and Shah 2015;Lee and Han 2016).…”

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Studying Religiosity and Spirituality: A Review of Macro, Micro, and Meso-Level Approaches

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This paper seeks to advance the global study of religiosity and spirituality by conducting a meta-analysis of major approaches in the field. While the field, and thus the collected publications, are dominated by Western approaches, particular attention is paid in this analysis to publications from geographies that are not from the United States or Western Europe, especially these world regions: Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Similarly, while the study of religiosity is considerably centered around Christianity, this analysis extends beyond Christianity, to the extent possible in extant studies, to include publications investigating other world religious traditions, such as African spirituality, African witchcraft, Afro-Caribbean religious traditions, Buddhism, Confucianism, folk religions, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Mormonism, Neo-paganism, New Religious Movements (NRMs), Shamanism, Sikhism, Spiritism, Taoism, and spirituality generally. A total of 530 publications were reviewed, and the studies are categorized by unit of analysis into: Macro, micro, and meso-level. Measurement constructs include religious demography, culture, belonging, behaving, believing, bonding, religious salience, spiritual identities, religious networks, occupations, congregations, denominations, and faith-based organizations. Non-Western sources and approaches are analyzed toward furthering future research in under-studied world regions. Implications are drawn for the field, such as the need to geo-code publications at the country level.

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Deadly Influences: Evaluating the Relationship Between Political Competition and Religious Violence

Brathwaite

Park

2023

Polit Behav

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Conceptualizing the Religious Dimensions of Armed Conflicts: A Response to “Shrouded: Islam, War, and Holy War in Southeast Asia”

Cited by 5 publications

References 17 publications

Disputes over the Divine

Disputes over the Divine

Studying Religiosity and Spirituality: A Review of Macro, Micro, and Meso-Level Approaches

Deadly Influences: Evaluating the Relationship Between Political Competition and Religious Violence

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