Xenosophia and Religion. Biographical and Statistical Paths for a Culture of Welcome

Chapter 1 What is Xenosophia? Philosophical Contributions to Prejudice Research

Chapter 2 Extant Empirical Research on Religiosity and Prejudice

Chapter 3 How Faith Development Interviews Reflect Biographical Paths to Xenosophia: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations

Chapter 4 Design, Methods, and Sample Characteristics of the Bielefeld Study on Xenosophia and Religion

Chapter 5 Xenophobia and the Culture of Welcome in Times of High Refugee Immigration

Chapter 6 Explaining Xenophobia and Xenosophia: Effects of Religiosity, Openness, Tolerance of Complexity, and Religious Schemata

Chapter 7 Inter-Religious Prejudice in Context: Prejudice against Black Persons, Homosexuals and Women, and the Role of the Violence Legitimizing Norms of Masculinity

Chapter 8 Implicit and Explicit Attitudes toward Abrahamic Religions. Comparison of Direct and Indirect Assessment

Chapter 9 Values and the Value Space as a Coordinate System for Understanding Xenosophia and Inter-Religious Prejudice

Chapter 10 A Typology of Biographical Trajectories toward Xenosophia

Chapter 11 “...the follower of a different faith is someone to learn from”—Curiosity and Xenosophia of Robert T.

Chapter 12 “…it’s important … to open your senses for situations, for people, for circumstances.”—Developing a Habitus of Tolerance of Complexity and Openness for the Alien—Nina F.

Chapter 13 “There are different points of view, German, Turkish, and so on…”—Negotiating World View and Identity in an Immigrant Family—Cemal K.

Chapter 14 “And so I have the chance to help people. And that makes me happy.”—Altruistic Care for Fellow Refugees and Inter-Religious Appreciation—Henry G.

Chapter 15 Biographical and Statistical Paths toward Xenosophic Religion