Inhalt: | This book documents the current polarization in Germany regarding the issue of refugee immigration. It presents quantitative estimates for both xenophobia and xenophilia in the German population, including short-time changes. The book suggests a conceptual change of perspectives. It focuses not only on the pathogenic model that accounts for outcomes such as xenophobia, Islamophobia and other forms of (inter-religious) prejudice, but on a salutogenic model. In the book’s view, the salutogenic model entails xenosophia: the wisdom, creativity and inspiration that emerges from the encounter with the strange and the strange religion. The book addresses individual dispositions, which may lead to xenophobia or xenosophia, and takes into account predictors such as religiosity, religious schemata, value preferences, tolerance of complexity, and violence legitimizing norms of masculinity. A selection of case studies present typical biographical trajectories toward xenosophia Part 1. Points of Departure -- 1. What is Xenosophia? Philosophical and Psychological Explications (Streib) -- 2. Extant Research on Inter-religious Prejudice and Xenophobia in Germany (Klein) -- 3. Design, Hypotheses and Quantitative Instruments of the Study (Klein) -- 4. The Faith Development Interview, Evaluation and Triangulation, and the Structure of Case Studies (Streib) -- Part 2. Quantitative Results -- 5. Xenophilia under Pressure: Results of a Two-Wave-Survey in the Critical Times of Refugee Migration to Germany (Streib) -- 6. Attitudes Towards Abrahamic Religions - Comparison of Implicit and Explicit Assessment (Klein) -- 7. Inter-religious Prejudice in Context: Prejudice Against Black People, Homosexuals and Women, and the Role of the Violence Legitimizing Norms of Masculinity (Lühr) -- 8. Xenosophia and its Potential Predictors and Outcomes: Religion, Religious Styles, and Tolerance of Complexity (Streib) -- 9. Values and the Value Space as Coordinate System for Understanding Xenosophia and Inter-religious Prejudice (Gennerich) -- Part III. Case Studies -- 10. A Typology of Biographical Trajectories Toward Xenophobia and Xenosophia (Streib) -- 11.Case study -- 12. Case study -- 13. Case study -- 14. Case study -- 15. Case study -- 16. Conclusion (Streib) |
