Liminal minorities : religious difference and mass violence in Muslim societies
Günes Murat Tezcür
Bok · Engelsk · 2024
| Omfang | xiii, 254 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | 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: Bahai's and Ahmadis -- Religious liminality and societal discrimination in a global perspective -- Transcending liminality.. - "Why do some religious minorities, lacking any significant power and presenting no imminent threat, become targets of violent attacks? This book is a comparative-historical study of mass atrocities targeting liminal minorities including Yezidis in Iraq in the 2010s and Alevis in Turkey in the late twentieth century"--
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| ISBN | 9781501774676. - 9781501774683
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