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The Religious Dimension of Post-Communist “Ethnic” Conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Christopher Marsh
Christopher Marsh*
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J.M. Dawson Institute of Church–State Studies, Baylor University, USA. Email: Chris_marsh@baylor.edu
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Common religious, cultural, and ethnic bonds can hold communities together, while differences along these same lines often lead to calls for national independence, complicate nation building, and confound inter-communal peacemaking efforts. In particular, when religious differences exist between groups in conflict there is a marked tendency for such differences to become emphasized. This is not to say that religion is the root cause of all internecine and inter-communal conflict, which certainly is not the case. But conflicts become fundamentally altered as they rage on, and factors that were at the root cause of a conflict at its outset may no longer be the primary causes in later stages. That is, once conflicts have significantly evolved, the prior causes may no longer be the primary causes.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , November 2007 , pp. 811 - 830
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Copyright © 2007 Association for the Study of Nationalities 

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