Refutations of “Heterodoxy”: Zoroastrians, New Christians, and Muslims against Manichaeans

Marriage Gap in Christians and Muslims.

For modern Western societies with a regime of monogamy, it has recently been demonstrated that the socioeconomic status of men is positively associated with being or having been married. This study aims to compare marriage patterns (if a person has been married at least once) for cultures with a tradition of monogamy and polygyny. As no worldwide data on polygyny exist, religion was used as a p...

Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process

Clash of Cultures: Muslims and Christians in the Ethnosizing Process The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal interactions, history of migration a...

Conflict resolution styles among Australian Christians and Muslims

Findings from this study of Austrolion practising and non-practising Christians and Muslims support the proposition that both religious affiliation and the depth of that affiliation affect on individual's conflict resolution style (colloborator, compromiser, accommodator, controller, or ovoider), and that minority status and particular historical time and situation may also affect it. Practisin...

Religious Intolerance among Orthodox Christians and Muslims in Russia

Interconfessional analysis of use and related problems: the Christians and Muslims

Background The confession to which a person has been committed to will likely influence his/her attitude towards alcohol use. Many studies have suggested that the problem of alcohol use between people of different confession, although might differ, the gap is narrowing [1,2]. We therefore examine the differences in the pattern of alcohol use among people of different confessions the Christians ...

Societal Discrimination against Muslims in Europe: Racism and Political Opportunism