Ethnoreligious Conflict in the Late 20th Century

Jonathan Fox's new work provides the first systematic empirical study of the role that religion plays in ethnic violence. <I>Ethnoreligious Conflict in the Late Twentieth Century</I> critiques the existing literature on religion and ethnic conflict then presents and analyzes original quantitative data gathered from a variety of sources. Fox draws upon the Minorities at Risk model of ethnic conflict to develop and test a dynamic and comprehensive theory of religion and conflict. He applies this theory to resurgent conflicts between ethnic groups of different religions-from the Iranian revolution and the Afghan struggle against the Soviets in the 1980s to the ongoing Middle East conflict-to pinpoint the ways in which religion has become intertwined in and lent legitimacy to conflicts in the contemporary world.