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Attitudes of Interfaith Students in the West - Abe W. Ata

Attitudes of Interfaith Students in the West

Educational Insights from Australia, New Zealand and Germany

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Buch | Hardcover
228 Seiten
2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69898-7 (ISBN)
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This book will benefit policy makers dealing with migration, refugees, radicalization, and terrorism. Comprising 13 chapters, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of four national surveys which were administered by the author in Germany and Australia between 2008 and 2021.
The meaning of being Muslim has undergone enormous changes in the aftermath of the bombings in New York in 2001. The initial reaction of Western media outlets was to portray Muslims as a global threat. In social, cultural and political contexts, Muslims were thought to be unable to fit into Western societies. For example, in a major survey, over half of Australians preferred that their relatives not marry into a Muslim family.



This book examines the attitudes, perceptions and knowledge of young Muslim and Western students towards one another in German, Australian and New Zealand educational institutions. It also addresses the views, pressures, unconscious biases, presumptions and expectations, social, cultural and religious influences that drive the relationship between the two communities.

Abe W. Ata, PhD (1980), is Adjunct Professor at both La Trobe and Victoria universities. He has published 21 monographs, 37 entries in three encyclopedias, and 153 journal articles.

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

About the Authors



1 Cross-Cultural Attitudes in Education: Majority-Minority Students in Australia and Germany

 1 Religious Diversity, Education, and Prejudice

 2 Knowledge, Attitudes and False Beliefs in Education

 3 Examining the Resentments and Grievances of the Australian Muslim Community

 4 Examining the Resentments and Grievances of the Dominant Australian Community

 5 Fostering Race-Related Dialogue in Education between the Two Groups

 6 Methodology and Analysis



PART 1: Knowledge, False Beliefs and Cross-Cultural Attitudes



2 Knowledge, False Beliefs and Fact-Driven Perceptions of Muslims in Australian High Schools

 1 Introduction

 2 Method

 3 Findings

 4 Perception of Islam

 5 Discussion

 6 Conclusions



3 Knowledge, False Beliefs, and Information Processing Perception of Australia by Muslim High School Students

 1 Introduction

 2 Companion Study of Non-Muslim Students

 3 Survey Method and Sample Characteristics

 4 Overall Results

 5 Words and Images Which the Word “Australian” Triggers in the Mind of Participants

 6 Discussion and Findings

 7 Conclusions



4 Reaction Mixture of Perception and Attitudes of Tertiary Educated Muslim Students to Mainstream Australian Community

 Abe W. Ata and David Teh

 1 Introduction

 2 Originality and Relevance of the Survey

 3 Survey Method and Sample Characteristics

 4 Findings

 5 Knowledge about Christianity

 6 Educational Influences on Interfaith Relations

 7 Conclusions



PART 2: Intergroup Relations, Social Distance and Religious Bias



5 Perception of the “Other” in Catholic Schools in Australia: A National Survey

 1 Introduction

 2 Survey Method

 3 Characteristics of Participating Schools

 4 Conclusions



6 Differentiating Effects of Social Distance and Intergroup Contact: German University Students’ Views on Islam and Muslims

 Abe W. Ata and Klaus Baumann

 1 Introduction

 2 Definitions and Background Perspectives

 3 Survey Method and Sample Characteristics

 4 Results and Discussion

 5 Conclusions



7 Commixture Effects of Community Norms, Knowledge, and Friendship on Social Distance/Intergroup Relations with Muslims in the Wake of the Christchurch Terrorist Attacks

 Abe W. Ata and David Teh

 1 Background Perspectives—the Case of New Zealand

 2 Survey Method, Data Analysis, and Sample Characteristics

 3 Statistical Computations and Data Analysis

 4 Results and Discussion

 5 Conclusions



PART 3: Religious Affiliation, Gender Differences, and Integration



8 Do Muslim-Australian Tertiary Students View Their Own Values to Be Compatible with Those Held by the Dominant/Mainstream Society!

 1 Originality and Relevance of the Survey

 2 Survey Method and Sample Characteristics

 3 Conclusions



9 Cultural, Gender and Religious Predictors of Perception of Muslims at Tertiary Institutions

 1 Method Originality and Relevance of the Survey

 2 Survey Method and Sample Characteristics

 3 Results and Discussion

 4 Conclusions



10 Knowledge, False Beliefs and Fact Driven Perceptions of Muslims in German Universities

 Abe W. Ata and Klaus Baumann

 1 Introduction

 2 Survey Method and Sample Characteristics

 3 Discussion

 4 Conclusions



PART 4: Social Cohesion, Stereotyping, and Inclusivity



11 Psychological and Social Distance of School-Age Non-Muslim Australians towards Muslims and Islam

 1 Methods

 2 Results

 3 Discussion and Conclusions



12 How Do Students in Islamic Schools Perceive Their Values as Compatible with the Broader Australian Community: A National Survey

 1 Survey Method and Sample Characteristics

 2 Findings and Discussion

 3 Overall Results



13 Conclusions

 1 Part 1: Knowledge, False Beliefs and Cross-Cultural Attitudes

 2 Part 2: Intergroup Relations, Social Distance and Religious Bias

 3 Part 3: Religious Affiliation, Gender Differences and Social Harmony

 4 Part 4: Social-Psychological Distance, Stereotyping, and Inclusivity



References

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Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 505 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 90-04-69898-1 / 9004698981
ISBN-13 978-90-04-69898-7 / 9789004698987
Zustand Neuware
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