An Assessment of Religious Conflicts and Their Resolutions

Religious conflicts were explored in a sample of 2002 adults, 132 of whom provided written descriptions of conflicts they considered to be religious in nature. The majority of conflicts involved other people, but the resolution of the conflict did not. Participants also completed Hunt's Literal, Antiliteral and Mythological scales of religiousness. Mythological scores were significantly greater among people who had experienced conflict than among those who had not. No reliable differences in Literal and Antiliteral scores were observed between participants who have experienced religious conflict and those who have not.