Reasoning about the scope of religious norms: Evidence from Hindu and Muslim children in India.
Year: 2018
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Conflicts arise when members of one religion apply their norms to members of another religion. Two studies explored how 100 9- to 15-year-old Hindu and Muslim children from India reason about the scope of religious norms. Both Hindus and Muslims from a diverse Hindu-Muslim school (Study 1) and Hindus from a homogeneous Hindu school (Study 2) more often judged it wrong for Hindus to violate Hindu norms, compared to Muslim norms, and said the opposite for Muslims. In contrast, children judged it wrong for both Hindus and Muslims toharm others. Thus, even in a setting marred by religious conflict, children can restrict the scope of a religion’s norms to members of that religion, providing a basis for peaceful co-existence.
Authors: Mahesh Srinivasan, Elizabeth Kaplan, Audun Dahl
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4244424394