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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Religious prejudice"”.
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Personal accounts for religious prejudice in Christians
Despite the long history of research on prejudice, investigation into religious prejudice, defined as the derogation of individuals from religions other than one’s own, is limited. Grounded in the justification-suppression model of prejudice, the present study attempted to identify personal …
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Errors on the vertical: Santification, infra-humanization, and religious prejudice
Religious fundamentalism has been related to a variety of prejudicial and discriminatory attitudes and public policy preferences. However, contrary to accounts of fundamentalism as pathological, fundamentalists are physically and mentally healthier than no-fundamentalists (Genia, 1996; Pargament, …
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The Impact of Islamic Religiosity on Perceived Discrimination, Coping, and Psychological Outcomes
… between racial-ethnic discrimination, religious prejudice, environmental prejudice, religious coping, perceived stress, and Islam’s effect on well-being. Through Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, 875 participants met screening requirements and completed the online survey. Participants completed …
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Religion as a factor in the defeat of Alfred E. Smith in the election of 1928
… went so far as to maintain that it was religious prejudice that cost Smith the election. The purpose of this essay will be to determine the veracity or falsity of this interpretation of the cause of Smith’s defeat in the election of 1928, in the hope that a careful representation of the …
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The Quebec Act
… of this thesis on the Quebec Act is to show that Religious Intolerance played an important role not only in the opposition manifested toward the act in England and America hut also in the events that brought pressure to bear on the British Ministry, importuning them like the man in the gospel …
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John F. Kennedy and the Politics of Faith, 1960-1963
… turning point that announced a new era, free of religious prejudice, and marked the beginning of the “secular sixties.” In fact, religious concerns, including old denominational animosities, did not suddenly disappear. Faith-based engagement with politics continued through the early 1960s. …
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Polecats, Poison, and Prejudice: Naturalized Anti-Judaic Tropes in Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
… Death, to further characterize the cultural prejudices against Jews present in <em>The Pardoner’s Tale</em> and its reflection of the intensity of religious prejudice entrenched in fourteenth-century English storytelling. As a result, I argue that <em>The Pardoner’s Tale</em>’s subtle …
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Stranged marriages : unconventional matrimony in western American fiction.
… Willa Cather denounce or reveal racism, greed, religious prejudice, class inequalities, and oppressive or restrictive gender roles. Additionally, they draw readers' attention to the arbitrariness of marital or social conventions for purposes of humor or satire. This study examines attempts to …
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Dispossession of Matrimonial Choice in Contemporary India: Examining the Link between Cross-region Marriages, Neoliberal Capitalism, and New Forms of Gender Subordination
… cultural assimilation, and ethnoracist and religious prejudice within the intimacy of their marriages, and within their conjugal households and villages. This research illustrates that the cross-region brides occupy a contradictory space, as these marriages foreclose their agency, yet …
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The skin of a writer
… It is a place fractured by racial, class and religious prejudice. When Jonathan meets Winsome, these tensions erupt, and the two of them are drawn into a dangerous and shocking affair. The exegesis, “Representing Anglo-Burmese Subjectivity”, offers a reading of texts that depict Anglo-Burmese …
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The development of essentialist reasoning about religion categories in Northern Ireland
… thinking about social categories, as well as prejudice and even discrimination. <br/><br/>Prior research has found that social/cultural context constrains the development of social essentialist reasoning; the most highly emphasised and socially meaningful dimensions stressed within a …
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Religion and Politics: A Community Study
139 pages