Etno-religious identification and intergroup contact avoidance

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This study focuses on the latent aspects of an ethno-religious conflict, describing why and how people avoid contact with 'out-groups.' Their contact avoidance is largely based on the notion of power. The book shows how contact avoidance towards out-groups is related to people's ethno-religious identification. This is explained by various factors, such as a perceived group threat, out-group distrust, fundamentalism, quantity of contact, and direct experiences of violence. Finally, the book illustrates how education, mass media, and the history of conflict are related with intergroup contact avoidance. ( Nijmegen Studies in Development and Cultural Change (NICCOS) - Vol. 50) [ Religious Studies, Christianity, Islamic Studies, Asian Studies]