Exclusionary religious identity

Exclusionary religious identities are a specific type of identity, ranging from individual to national scale. Those kinds of doctrines and beliefs may say that their particular religion is the only true one. Exclusionary religious identities believe that people from other religions should be rejected from their culture, commonly seeing them as inferiors. Religious persecution are not unusual among societies like those.

Those religious views are shaping regional and local dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa and are starting to do so in parts of Sub-Saharan Africa between Christian and Muslim communities. In Russia, nation and religion are continuing to converge to reinforce political control.