Considering intensifying sectarian conflicts in recent years and increasing interreligious violence around the globe, there is a need to further our understanding of negative attitudes toward religious out-groups. To investigate the driving factors behind these negative attitudes among members of the three major Abrahamic religions, I employ original data derived from a survey fielded among 10,046 respondents in eight countries (Cyprus, Germany, Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, Palestine, Turkey, and the USA). A rich body of literature documents the relationship between religious fundamentalism and prejudice. Other scholars have investigated out-group hostility using an intergroup relations perspective, focusing on contact theory, and more recently, on discrimination. While controlling for other relevant factors such as demographic and socioeconomic variables, I investigate the role of religiosity and intergroup relations in explaining unfavorable interreligious attitudes. The results suggest that unfavorable attitudes toward religious out-groups are most strongly associated with religious fundamentalism. This finding is robust across religious groups.

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三大宗教对宗教外群体不良态度的解释

考虑到近年来教派冲突的加剧和全球宗教间暴力的增加，我们有必要进一步了解对宗教外群体的负面态度。为了调查三大亚伯拉罕宗教成员的这些消极态度背后的驱动因素，我使用了来自八个国家（塞浦路斯、德国、以色列、肯尼亚、黎巴嫩、巴勒斯坦、土耳其和美国）。大量文献记录了宗教原教旨主义与偏见之间的关系。其他学者使用群体间关系的角度研究了群体外的敌意，重点关注接触理论，最近则关注歧视。在控制人口和社会经济变量等其他相关因素的同时，我调查了宗教信仰和群体间关系在解释不利的宗教间态度方面的作用。结果表明，对宗教外群体的不利态度与宗教原教旨主义最密切相关。这一发现在所有宗教团体中都是稳健的。