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religious minority-majority relations  

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  • A religious majority may be constituted by its numerical preponderance or by its dominant power, or both. Normally talk of religious majority-minority relations concerns relations between different religious communities, but in many modern societies, it is also salient to consider majority-minority relations between religious and secular constituencies.Majoritarian status fluctuates not only over time but also by geographical scale. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Religious Minority-Majority Relations]

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