Author
SEVİNÇ, Kenan, Doğan,Recai
Publication Place
Motif Publishing -
Motif Publishing
Subject
Religious studies, 2019-06, Vol.22 (55 (15-06-2019)), p.27-50
Type
Book
Language
ara,eng,tur
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Leitir Library
Library Asset ID
ISSN: 1301-966X, EISSN: 2602-2435, DOI: 10.15745/da.530472
Record ID
cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_4345bb4de51c40ac9040e8edb9da402b
Library Location
DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
Notes
England is one of the countries with the largest Muslim population in Europe, and in parallel with the rise of the far right across Europe, negative attitudes and discrimination against Muslims are increasing in England. There are many different psychological reasons for negative attitudes towards Muslims in particular and all foreigners in general. Terror Management Theory claims that one of these is reminding individuals of death. According to Terror Management Theory, a person who has a strong motivation to survive also knows that all his efforts to survive will one day fail and experiences death anxiety. To get rid of this anxiety, he turns to his culture and begins to defend it strongly. When individuals who are reminded of death turn to their own culture to overcome death anxiety, they develop prejudices against other cultures, that is, external groups or their members, or acquire negative attitudes towards them. To test this claim, an experiment was conducted in England in 2018 with the participation of 50 people. Participants were divided into two equal groups and experimental and control groups were created. In order to examine the effect of being reminded of death on attitudes towards Muslims, the experimental group was shown a death reminder video and then questions measuring attitudes towards Muslims were asked to both groups. When the data obtained was analyzed, it was determined that the attitudes of individuals who were reminded of death (experiment group) were more negative towards Muslims than other individuals (control group). The United Kingdom is one of the countries with the highest Muslim population in Europe and in the UK, negative attitudes and discrimination against Muslims are increasing in parallel with the rise of far right in all around Europe. There are many different psychological reasons for negative attitudes towards foreigners and especially towards Muslims. Terror Management Theory claims that one of these reasons is the mortality salience. According to the theory, human with a strong motivation to survive knows that one day all his efforts will fail and he will die. This creates a death anxiety. In order to get rid of this anxiety, the individual turns his face to his culture or world view and begins to defend it strongly. Individuals, whose deaths are reminding, develop prejudice or develop negative attitudes towards other cultures, ie, outgroups or towards their members, when they turn to their own culture to deal with the anxiety. In order to test this claim, an experiment was conducted with participation of 50 people in the UK in 2018. The participants were divided into two groups as experimental and control groups. In order to examine the effect of the mortality salience on the attitudes towards Muslims, the experimental group was shown a video about death, and then, both groups were asked questions that measured attitudes towards Muslims. As a result of the experiment, it has been found that the attitudes of participants (experimental group) to whom the death was reminding, towards Muslims are more negative than the attitudes of other participants (control group).
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