Religion-driven intergroup conflict persists against secularization predictions.

Evidence

Religious differences have been the source of multiple intergroup conflicts in Israel, Northern Ireland, and former Yugoslavia. So, despite philosophers’ assertions that we are entering an age where science and reason will dominate society’s discourse and that the power of religion is fading (Russell, 1952), much evidence suggests religion remains a powerful force for significant portion of world’s population. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 888

Categorization

• XREF: Directly complicates the secularization/Allport-era thesis that religious prejudice would fade with modernization — ties to the reader’s question of whether group prejudice requires religion or merely uses it as a boundary marker. — connects to: Premature declarations of the religious right’s death confused progress narratives with institutional continuity — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 287; Ethnic and religious fragmentation do not predict civil war onset — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 809
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 888