RT Article
T1 Disentangling Honor-Based Violence and Religion: The Differential Influence of Individual and Social Religious Practices and Fundamentalism on Support for Honor Killings in a Cross-National Sample of Muslims
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 36
IS 19/20
SP 9770
OP 9789
A1 Beller, Johannes
A2 Kröger, Christoph
A2 Hosser, Daniela
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1770925694
AB Religion is seen as one of the main causes of honor violence; yet, empirical studies investigating this purported relationship remain scarce. Therefore, we investigated how individual and social religious practices, religious fundamentalism, and demographic variables contribute to support for honor killings of women and men. We analyzed multinational face-to-face interview data of Muslims with a final sample size of N = 25,723. Using multilevel ordinal regression, we found that increased support for honor killings was strongly predicted by the frequency of mosque attendance, religious fundamentalism, a lower educational level, and living in a rural area. Conversely, gender and the frequency of private prayer did not significantly relate to support for honor killings. Thus, different aspects of religion have differential effects: Individual aspects of religious practice such as private prayer seem to be not significantly related to support for honor violence, whereas social aspects such as mosque attendance and religious fundamentalism strongly predict an increased support for honor killings.
K1 Religious Fundamentalism
K1 Religiosity
K1 Honor killings
K1 honor violence
DO 10.1177/0886260519869071