Intergroup conflict, religious fundamentalism, and culture
(2016) Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology — Vol. 47, n° 1, p. 33-41 (2016)
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- Kashima (2016) underlines the importance of considering religion as one of the major contemporary cultural sources of intergroup conflict around the world. In this commentary, I first examine theory and psychological research either discharging or charging religion per se, including fundamentalism, as being a cultural cause of intergroup conflict and violence. The evidence is in favor of the latter. Second, I propose a model of cultural psychological diversity of religious fundamentalism, across monotheistic religions and denominations. I finally argue, following Kashima’s (2016) global perspective on the person-culture-nature interactions, that cultural differences on religious fundamentalism may be understood as reflecting long-time interactions between natural and cultural environments and human animals, which, by creating religious (sub)cultures, rebuild, even if frequently with negative consequences, their ecological niches.
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Saroglou, V. (2016). Intergroup conflict, religious fundamentalism, and culture. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 47(1), 33-41. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022115621174 (Original work published 2016)