Prejudice against people of ethnic groups different than one’s own can be central to intergroup conflict. A person’s religiousness may function to either facilitate or retard prejudices, depending upon whether the way the religion is held fosters perceiving others as outsiders and in an “us versus them” manner. These considerations raise concerns about increased expression by Turkish citizens of attitudes against the Syrian refugees that fled to Turkey between 2011 and 2019. The present study used quantitative methods to examine prejudice against Syrian war refugees and asylum seekers as related to religious attitudes and demographic variables in 400 Turkish Muslims in rural Eastern Anatolia, making this a unique dataset that adds to the international pool of information about religion and prejudice. Analyses of measures of social distance from others, feelings toward the outgroup, and religious attitudes showed that prejudice decreased as religious attitudes became more positive, and that women’s religious attitudes were more positive than those of men. Participants with lower monthly income had significantly higher religious attitudes and lower social distance scores than those with high income. People studying Engineering, Education, and Arts and Science showed greater prejudice than those studying Theology. The findings help expand our knowledge base of the relation between religion and prejudice, and document differences between the present findings and those of studies of this relationship in other countries and religions.
prejudice religiosity religious attitudes social distance syrian refugees islamic attitudes
Ön yargı Dindarlık Dini Tutumlar Sosyal Mesafe Suriyeliler Mülteciler İslami Tutumlar
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Konular | Din Araştırmaları |
Bölüm | ARAŞTIRMA MAKALELERİ |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 30 Aralık 2020 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2020 Cilt: 10 Sayı: 20 |