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Therefore, one of the principal questions this book tackles is why conflict participants in civil wars share faith more often than they are separated by it. Chapter 3 provided the general theoretical insight that group-relative size and intersection of identities with the majority likely affect the strategies of identity mobilization that are chosen by minority group leaders. One testable implication of this general theory is the Challenger's Winning Coalition (CWC), which specifies that when groups that are segmented on one identity dimension become increasingly even in size, an additional shared identity presents leaders of the minority with an opportunity for alternative mobilization of the shared identity, across the segmenting identity.The theory of Alternatives in Mobilization proposed in Chapter 3 is agnostic as to the content of the alternative cleavage being mobilized. Instead, the driver of the mechanism we expect to see is demography and shared cleavages. 1 In contrast, in this chapter, the empirical focus is on the strategic mobilization of religion across ethnicity, specifically asking whether the theoretical insight from Chapter 3 casts light on the observed role of

Published

2022

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