Mass Religious Ritual and Intergroup Tolerance: The Muslim Pilgrims' Paradox

Mikhail A. Alexseev (San Diego State University),Sufian N. Zhemukhov (George Washington University, Washington DC)

Mass Religious Ritual and Intergroup Tolerance: The Muslim Pilgrims' Paradox
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
14 July 2017
Pages
240
ISBN
9781107191853

Mass Religious Ritual and Intergroup Tolerance: The Muslim Pilgrims’ Paradox

Mikhail A. Alexseev (San Diego State University),Sufian N. Zhemukhov (George Washington University, Washington DC)

Under what conditions does in-group pride facilitate out-group tolerance? What are the causal linkages between intergroup tolerance and socialization in religious rituals? This book examines how Muslims from Russia’s North Caucuses returned from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca both more devout as Muslims and more tolerant of out-groups. Drawing on prominent theories of identity and social capital, the authors resolve seeming contradictions between the two literatures by showing the effects of religious rituals that highlight within-group diversity at the same time that they affirm the group’s common identity. This theory is then applied to explain why social integration of Muslim immigrants has been more successful in the USA than in Europe and how the largest Hispanic association in the US defied the clash of civilizations theory by promoting immigrants’ integration into America’s social mainstream. The book offers insights into Islam’s role in society and politics and the interrelationships between religious faith, immigration and ethnic identity, and tolerance that will be relevant to both scholars and practitioners.

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