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Key	BIB39627
Reference type	Book
Title	Liminal Minorities : Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies
Series title	Religion and Conflict
Author	Tezcür, Güneş Murat
Year	2024
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Place published	Ithaca, New York
Issue	10.
ISBN	9781501774676 9781501774683
Abstract	Liminal Minorities adresses the question of why some religious minorities provoke the ire of majoritarian groups and become targets of organized violence, even though they lack significant power and pose no political threat. Güneş Murat Tezcür argues that these faith groups are stigmatized across generations, as they lack theological recognition and social acceptance from the dominant religious group. Religious justifications of violence have a strong mobilization power when directed against liminal minorities, which makes these groups particularly vulnerable to mass violence during periods of political change. Offering the first comparative-historical study of mass atrocities against religious minorities in Muslim societies, Tezcür focuses on two case studies—the Islamic State's genocidal attacks against the Yezidis in northern Iraq in the 2010s and massacres of Alevis in Turkey in the 1970s and 1990s—while also addressing discrimination and violence against followers of the Bahá'í faith in Iran and Ahmadis in Pakistan and Indonesia. Analyzing a variety of original sources, including interviews with survivors and court documents, Tezcür reveals how religious stigmatization and political resentment motivate ordinary people to participate in mass atrocities.
Notes	LCCN 2023031796. Includes bibliographical references and index. Sinjar, August 2014 -- Religious liminality -- A theory of religious liminality and violence -- From liminality to genocidal violence: Yezidis of Iraq -- From massacres to denied victimhood: Alevis of Turkey -- Liminality in the broader Muslim world: Baha'is and Ahmadis -- Religious liminality and societal discrimination in a global perspective -- Transcending liminality.
Language	English
Keywords	MINORITIES; VIOLENCE; ISLAMIC COUNTRIES; PERSECUTION
Call number	HN768.Z9 V673 2024
Accession number	23218741

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