religious intolerance
Faith-based discrimination
Religious intolerance is hostility toward or discrimination against people based on their religious beliefs or practices.
It ranges from social prejudice to legal persecution: Religious intolerance drove the Pilgrims to America.
The term implies unwillingness to accept faiths different from one's own, whether expressed through individual bigotry or institutional policy.
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- hate speechLanguage attacking protected characteristics
- dogmatismUnyielding adherence to doctrine
true believer · sectarianism · fundamentalism · genocide · blood libel · pogrom · ethnic cleansing · forced conversion · apostasy · cultural hegemony · cross · hate crimes · culture war · xenophobia · auto-da-fé · proselytism · radicalization · blasphemy laws
- social issuesinequality, racism, poverty, illiteracy, homelessness
- discriminationracism, systemic discrimination, Jim Crow laws, sexism, racial harassment
- Intolerances
- hate crimeshate crime, racial attack, antisemitic attack, hate groups, racial violence
- Religious Persecutionforced conversions, iconoclasm
- Christian persecutionNero, Colosseum, crucifixion, martyrdom, early church
religious intolerancereligious tolerance
Acceptance of differing faiths
religious pluralism · ecumenism · open-mindedness · inclusivism · broad-mindedness
religious intolerancereligious freedom
Right to practice faith
freedom of religion · religious liberty · freedom of worship · freedom of conscience · religious equality