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DESCRIPTION:Why do some religious minorities\, lacking any significant powe
 r and presenting no imminent threat\, provoke the ire of popular groups and
  become targets of violent attacks? Tezcür's book offers the first comparat
 ive-historical study of mass atrocities targeting certain liminal minoritie
 s that are stigmatized across generations\, as they lack theological recogn
 ition and social acceptance from a dominant religious group. The combinatio
 n of hatred based on religious stigmas and political resentment becomes the
  spark leading to mass violence against these minorities. Case studies\, ut
 ilizing a rich variety of original sources\, focus on anti-Yezidi genocidal
  attacks in Iraq and anti-Alevi massacres in Turkey.\n\nGüneş Murat Tezcür 
 (Ph.D.\, University of Michigan\, 2005) is the Director of the School of Po
 litics and Global Studies at the Arizona State University. He is also a pro
 fessor in the same school. He is primarily a scholar of darker shades of hu
 man experience and explores the trajectories and legacies of political viol
 ence and politics of identity with a focus on Iranian\, Kurdish\, and Turki
 sh human geography as well as the United States. His scholarship has appear
 ed in many leading scholarly journals. His newest book is Liminal Minoritie
 s: Religion and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies (Cornell University Press
 \, 2024). He most recently edited The Oxford Handbook of Turkish Politics (
 Oxford University Press\, 2022). His scholarship has been supported by a va
 riety of entities including the National Science Foundation\, Harry Frank G
 uggenheim Foundation\, and United States Institute of Peace.
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SUMMARY:Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Musli
 m Societies | Book Talk with Güneş Murat Tezcür
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URL:https://events.stanford.edu/event/liminal_minorities
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