Hindu-Christian Conflict in India: Globalization, Conversion, and the Coterminal Castes and Tribes

Bauman, Chad M.

doi:10.1017/s0021911813000569

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“…Beyond this region, further examples abound. In India, for instance, the number of violent attacks on Christian minorities rose from around one a year in the decades preceding 1997 to well over 200 annually, a rise attributable to local Hindis perception that their Christian neighbors are too aligned with GWC and thus a vanguard of the global cultural threat (Bauman, ). While the specific intergroup implications of GWC alignment and non‐alignment vary from one local context to the next, the overall picture is highly suggestive of the kind of dynamics outlined here.…”

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Alignment with globalized Western culture: Between inclusionary values and an exclusionary social identity

Rosenmann

2015

Euro J Social Psych

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Reactions to globalized Western culture (GWC) are influential in shaping intergroup relations and social issues worldwide. GWC is conceptualized here as an inclusionary cultural value system but a simultaneously exclusionary social identity. Whereas GWC's inclusive values may promote the civil liberties and fair treatment of gay people, for instance, as a social identity, groups may use their alignment with GWC to buttress ingroup superiority over less aligned outgroups. Three studies (one correlational and two experimental in design) probe these opposing vectors in samples of Jewish-Israelis, who are generally highly aligned with GWC. Results demonstrate that GWC alignment is associated with decreased anti-gay prejudice (Studies 2 and 3) but exclusionary responses towards Arab individuals and groups (Studies 1, 2, and 3), who are perceived to be less aligned with GWC. Conducted during the 2014 IsraeliPalestinian war, Study 3 notably demonstrated that a GWC identification prime reduced Jewish-Israelis' willingness to offer humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in need. This may suggest that in some contexts, GWC's divisive function as a social identity supersedes its more inclusionary humanistic values. These contrary effects of GWC alignment by social target are discussed, alongside their implications on national, regional, and international levels.

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Alignment with globalized Western culture: Between inclusionary values and an exclusionary social identity

Rosenmann

2015

Euro J Social Psych

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“…Education played a crucial role in economic inequalities across households, although these states showed the lowest rate of poverty and the highest advantages among all the north‐eastern states in 2011–2012 (Khan & Padhi, 2017). Given that, the training poverty of Christians might be a matter of anti‐Christian harassment and religiously‐motivated discrimination against Christian denominations in traditionally non‐Christian India (Bauman, 2013, 2015); this puzzle requires more thorough research.…”

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Training poverty in India: Reassessing the effect of social ascription

Anikin

2021

Int J Training Development

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This paper set out to reassess the effects of economic and social determinants of the probability of formal vocational training in India. Applying the four‐level cross‐classified logistic model to the 2011–2012 National Sample Survey data, the paper identified the association between formal training and ‘good jobs’ in large urban electrified firms that offer permanent employment and regular monthly salary to their skilled occupation workers. Nevertheless, India remains a country of severe training poverty. This study confirms that the traditional mindset of the society does contribute to the training poverty; however, this impact is much limited to the household level and religious groups, such as Christians, which are systematically excluded from formal training as compared to Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists. In contrast, the lower castes and deprived social backgrounds do not affect, as predicted by previous studies. Moreover, it is shown that unskilled males from the rural area of India were less likely to receive formal training as compared to educated single women.

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“…123 Moreover, as Chad Bauman observes, it is in this context that, Christianity represents a political threat to the Hindu nationalist … conversions to Christianity are seen (or portrayed) as a threat to the nation because they diminish the numbers of those united by the common national identity, presumed to be at least vaguely Hindu in nature. 124 The problem is enshrined in the domestic code for, individual state "Freedom of Religion" bills are active in half a dozen states. These "anti-conversion" laws, prohibit conversion by 'force, fraud, and inducement'.…”

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India at the crossroads? Civil society, human rights and religious freedom: critical analysis of CSOs’ third cycle Universal Periodic Review discourse 2012–2017

Chaney

2019

The International Journal of Human Rights

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In order to provide a timely assessment of India's fulfilment of international obligations on religious freedom this article explores the nature and 'issue-salience' of different human rights 'pathologies'. It uses critical frame analysis of the corpus of civil society organisations' (CSOs) submissions to the third cycle Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The findings reveal CSOs' concerns over the weakening of rule of law institutions and restrictions on civil society during the period under study. This has impacted upon the ability of human rights defenders to protect religious freedom. The civil society discourse also highlights a broad range of failings; including communal violence, police malpractice/ judicial shortcomings, discrimination, oppression and incitement. In contrast, the Government's UPR submission fails to acknowledge these issues. In conceptual terms, this disconnect suggests performativity and legitimation are a feature of the post-2014 NDA administration's framing of human rights. It appears to embrace civil society engagement and the promotion of religious freedom in a way that advances political legitimacy, whereas civil society accounts suggest otherwise and point to 'legitimation'or a disjuncture between rhetoric and reality.

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Hindu-Christian Conflict in India: Globalization, Conversion, and the Coterminal Castes and Tribes

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Alignment with globalized Western culture: Between inclusionary values and an exclusionary social identity

Alignment with globalized Western culture: Between inclusionary values and an exclusionary social identity

Training poverty in India: Reassessing the effect of social ascription

India at the crossroads? Civil society, human rights and religious freedom: critical analysis of CSOs’ third cycle Universal Periodic Review discourse 2012–2017

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