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The research presented in this video explores attitudes towards immigrants and their religious rights in Western societies, based on survey data. MARC HELBLING finds that religiosity and liberal values are key variables: Individuals with liberal values are generally more tolerant towards immigrants – but tolerate religious rights less. Religious people by contrast are less tolerant towards immigrants – but more open towards their religious rights. This suggests that religion still shapes the way social issues are dealt with.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10042
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University of Bamberg (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)
The University of Bamberg, with more than 13,000 students, is among Germany‘s medium-sized universities. Its main areas of academic focus lie in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics, Business Administration and Human Sciences. These are rounded out by numerous programmes in application-oriented computer science. Cooperation between academia, commerce, culture and society benefits all parties: scholars investigate concrete issues and, together with their students, contribute to the implementation of potential solutions. Since the founding of the University of Bamberg in 1647, it is the people who have been its top priority. The close proximity of students and researchers provides for excellent advisory services, personal communication and interdisciplinary studies. The university currently offers roughly 100 programmes at the bachelor‘s and master‘s level. (Source: University of Bamberg)
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Original publication
Opposing Muslims and the Muslim Headscarf in Western Europe
European Sociological Review
Published in 2014