Book Review: <i>The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue: Plurality, Conflict, and Elitism in Hindu-Christian-Muslim Relations</i>

God, Love, and Interreligious Dialogue

The monotheistic religions that valorize love typically believe that their love for God should be extended to God's creatures and, in particular, to one's fellow human beings. Yet, in practice, the love of the Christian or Muslim or Hindu monotheist doesn't always extend to the love of the religious other. Precisely how, then, should the adherents of the major monotheistic religions respond to ...

Brass,Hindu-Muslim Violence

A Comparative Study of Religiocentrism among Christian, Muslim and Hindu Students in Tamil Nadu, India

Th is article presents a theoretical framework for religiocentrism that is suited to cross-religious comparisons between Christians, Muslims and Hindus. Religiocentrism is defined as the combination of positive attitudes toward the religious ingroup and negative attitudes toward religious outgroup(s). Empirical research proves the relevance of the construct ‘religiocentrism’ among Christian, Mu...

Comparing Religious Maturity of Hindu, Christian and Muslim Secondary School Students

The current study attempted to examine the religious maturity of Hindu (N=1050), Christian (N=1073) and Muslim (N=1394) adolescents studying at secondary level in Pakistan. This research is based on the theory of religious orientations presented by Allpport (1950). Age universal I-E scale (revised version of ROS – Religious Orientation Scale) developed by Kirkpatrick (1988) and Maltby (1999) wa...

ONLINE APPENDIX IMPLICATIONS OF AN ECONOMIC THEORY OF CONFLICT: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India

1.1. Description of the Model. For the sake of exposition, we kept the discussion in the main text at a somewhat informal level. Here is a simple extension of the model in the paper which formalizes several issues mentioned there. We consider a specification in which any member of a group might become an attacker, or a victim, or enjoy peace. In each such situation, his “earnings” for that peri...