Causes of Quarrel: What’s Special About Religious Disputes?
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Description
This chapter asks why domestic and international political disputes are so difficult to resolve once they have religious stakes. The chapter's answer centers on the centrality of religious identity and its role in integrating other aspects of personal identity, underwriting ethical commitments, and defining the national community. When it is a salient identity marker, religion is difficult to sacrifice or compromise. The political explosiveness of religious identity and national identity is heightened in a world where globalization is unsettling the latter.
Source Publication
Religious Pluralism, Globalization, and World Politics
Source Editors/Authors
Tom Banchoff
Publication Date
2008
Recommended Citation
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, "Causes of Quarrel: What’s Special About Religious Disputes?" (2008). Faculty Chapters. 134.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/134
