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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

religious balance, Middle East, Christian tolerance, churches

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Geography

Abstract

Recently three of Jordan’s neighboring states: Israel, Iraq, and Syria have experienced different types of large scale violence within their country. Jordan has remained relatively stable with no major violent conflicts. On October 21st 2012, the Jordanian Government announced that it had foiled a terrorist plot involving 11 Jordanians seeking to target Western interests in Amman. Even though Jordan is near the heart of the Muslim world, it has been targeted by terrorists, as if it was a Western state. This study analyzed the level of tolerance to the Christian faith inside a Muslim state according to the location of various religious buildings. The main goal of this project is to find out if Jordan portrays a sign of religious tolerance to the Christian faith, by how Christian churches are located in relation to the number and location of Muslim mosques. The question was to find out not only if the locations of Christian churches reflect Christian tolerance in the country of Jordan but also to assume that the state of Jordan is religiously tolerant and that the geographic locations of these different building help to prove that.

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