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

Informationen zum Autor Mikhail Alexseev is Professor of Political Science at San Diego State University. He is the author of Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma (Cambridge, 2006), Center-Periphery Conflict in Post-Soviet Russia (1999), and Threat Assessment, Intelligence, and Global Struggle (1997). Sufian N. Zhemukhov is Senior Research Associate at George Washington University, Washington DC and Lecturer of History of Islam at University of Maryland, Baltimore. He is co-author of Putin's Olympics: The Sochi Games and the Evolution of Twenty-First Century Russia (2017, with Robert Orttung). Klappentext This book develops a new theory of the conditions under which in-group pride can facilitate out-group tolerance. Zusammenfassung Under what conditions does in-group pride facilitate out-group tolerance? This book examines how Muslims from Russia's North Caucuses returned from the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca more tolerant of out-groups and applies findings to shed light on Muslim integration in the USA and Europe! and on Latino integration in the USA. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Pilgrims' Paradox: 1. Russia's North Caucasus: the State, the Hajj, and the revival of the sacred; 2. The paths of the paradox: from passion to tolerance; 3. The Hajj as social identity and social capital; Part II. The Hajj Model of Social Tolerance: 4. Repositioning or the axis mundi effect; 5. Recategorization; 6. Repersonalization; Part III. Beyond the Hajj: 7. Islam's social spaces: Europe vs the United States; 8. The la raza axis: Hispanic integration in North America; 9. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Mikhail Alexseev, Mikhail (San Diego State University) Alexseev, Mikhail (San Diego State University) Zhe Alexseev, Mikhail A Alexseev, Mikhail A. Alexseev, Mikhail A. (San Diego State University) Alexseev, Mikhail Zhemukhov Alexseev, Sufian Zhemukhov, Sufian N Zhemukhov, Sufian N. Zhemukhov, Sufian N. (George Washington University Zhemukhov
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107191853
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19185-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics; Cambridge Studies in Social Th; Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics; Cambridge Studies in Social Th
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Islam, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Comparative Politics, Interfaith relations