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“Only the Blue‐Eyed Ones”: How Refugees' Origin and Gender Affect Selective Solidarity Through Perceived Similarity and Threat

Journal of Social Issues, Volume 81, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates social psychological mechanisms underlying selective solidarity with refugees in two experimental studies conducted in Germany. We hypothesized, in line with the geopolitics of racialization and masculinization of refugees, and rooted in social–psychological theories, that refugee origin and gender affect expressions of
Tijana Karić, Frank Eckerle, Adrian Rothers, Zahra Khosrowtaj, Isabel Müller, Johannes Maaser, J. Christopher Cohrs   +6 more
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Welcome to the Dark Side: Use of Humour in Indoctrinating to Extremist Ideologies

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 55, Issue 3, September 2025.
ABSTRACT The paper argues that humour can be very effective in disseminating extremist ideologies, in part because of humour's inherent capacity to hinder critical reflection and in part because humour requires bringing together two conflicting frames of interpretation. With extremist humour, the other frame needed to make sense of what is funny is the
Jani Sinokki
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Hindu Nationalism emerging from narcissism of minor differences in Indo‐Bangladesh borderlands: A gendered narration

Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 200-213, September 2025.
Abstract The Sundarbans as a region is shared between Bangladesh (60%) and India (40%) and forms an intriguing geography to understand not only the consequences of macro‐political landmarks such as the partition, it is an arable field to explore the intersections of people, history, and politics‐ with a particular recognition of the constructions ...
Sneha Roy
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Linguistic shaming, the discourse of (sub)standard English, and religiolinguistic ideologies in Indian media

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 2, August 2025.
Abstract This article examines linguistic shaming behaviors, focusing on the case of an Indian news media platform where newsreaders commented on and criticized a Muslim college lecturer for ‘errors’ in her handwritten resignation letter in English.
Trang Thi Thuy Nguyen, M. Obaidul Hamid
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence and ideology: moderating the critique of media Islamophobia [PDF]

, 2017
Recent studies of British media coverage of Islam, influenced by Said’s critique of ‘Orientalism’, appear to have established that ‘Islamophobic’ stereotyping is highly characteristic of that coverage.
Brown, Lorraine, Richards, Barry
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Muslims and Non‐Muslims: In Conflict or Harmony With Each Other? Conflict‐Related Ingroup Norms Shape Threat Effects on Intergroup Behavioural Intentions

Journal of Community &Applied Social Psychology, Volume 35, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Threat increases ethnocentric motivation and can thus trigger hostile intergroup behaviour. However, ingroup norms–whether promoting conflict or positive intergroup relations–should moderate these effects, with positive (vs. conflict) norms reducing, eliminating, or even reversing intergroup hostility following threat.
Fabian M. Hess, Torsten Masson, Immo Fritsche   +2 more
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Faith in Fear: Conspiracy Theories as an Explanatory Tradition Within the American Christian Right

Religion Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2025.
ABSTRACT Since the 1970s, the Christian right in America has developed from a movement deliberately detached from politics into a lobbying force wielding influence in the heart of the American political system. Along this journey, the Christian right fostered and developed a number of conspiracy theories which played numerous roles in their ideology ...
Billy Mann
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Völkisch vs. catholic islamophobia in Spain: The conflict between racial and religious understandings of muslim identity [PDF]

, 2017
This article sets out to demonstrate that considering Islamophobia as a form of racism prevents us from fully grasping the complexity of this phenomenon. The author contends that there are different types of Islamophobia and while some are racist, others
Bravo López, Fernando
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The continuing relevance of the Copenhagen Document – Muslims in Western Europe and the security dimension [PDF]

, 2016
The Copenhagen Document was adopted in the wake of the Cold War, with the situation of ‘national minorities’ in Central and Eastern Europe and former Soviet States in mind.
Berry, Stephanie E
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The critique of religion as political critique: Mīrzā Fatḥ ʿAlī Ākhūndzāda's pre-Islamic xenology [PDF]

, 2016
(Awarded the International Society for Intellectual History’s Charles Schmitt Prize) Mīrzā Fatḥ 'Alī Ākhūndzāda’s Letters from Prince Kamāl al-Dawla to the Prince Jalāl al-Dawla (1865) is often read as a Persian attempt to introduce European ...
Gould, Rebecca
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