Faith or ideology?: religiosity, political Islam, and anti-Americanism in Iran
The Middle East, particularly the Islamic Republic of Iran, has a reputation for harboring very strong forms of anti-Americanism. Why are some individuals more hostile to the United States than others? What factors are associated with anti-American sentiments? This article offers the first systemati...
| Published in: | Journal of global security studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2019
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Journal of global security studies
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| Further subjects: | B
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B Religion B Islam and politics B Religiosity B Indoktrinierung B Anti-Americanism B Iran B Formation of opinion B Ideology B Interrogation B Enemy image B Politics B Public opinion B Demoscopy |
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| Summary: | The Middle East, particularly the Islamic Republic of Iran, has a reputation for harboring very strong forms of anti-Americanism. Why are some individuals more hostile to the United States than others? What factors are associated with anti-American sentiments? This article offers the first systematic study of anti-Americanism in Iran, a country in which anti-Americanism has been a guiding policy of the government since the 1979 revolution. Based on original survey data from 2016, I seek to explain how religiosity and political Islam influence public attitudes toward the United States. Distinguishing between political and cultural anti-Americanism, I find that, while support for political Islam is significantly associated with both types of anti-Americanism, religiosity predicts only cultural anti-Americanism. The findings challenge the literature that associates anti-American sentiments with religiosity in the Islamic world. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 557-559 |
| ISSN: | 2057-3189 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of global security studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jogss/ogy038 |