Willingness to Engage in Religious Collective Action: The Role of Group Identification and Identity Fusion

Abstract

In Study 1, 239 Indonesian Muslims reported their religious identification, identity fusion and their willingness to engage in peaceful and violent collective action. Both religious identification and identity fusion were positively associated with peaceful collective action. In addition, when the role of identity fusion was controlled, identification was found to be negatively associated with support for violence. A second study (N = 176 Indonesian Muslims) found that religious identification was positively associated with peaceful collective action. However, even though identity fusion was again positively associated with support for violence, identification was not a significant predictor when controlling for identity fusion.