ABSTRACT
In addition to religious dominance, responses to religious dominance (‘responses’) is another major concept in the theoretical framework of interreligious relations. The case study of Suriname and Guyana applies the concept of ‘responses’ to examine how Hindus and Muslims dealt with Christian dominance and how these influenced the interreligious relations from 1950 to 2014. A distinction is made between institutional and ideological responses to both the dominance of traditional Christians and Evangelicals. Comparative analyses at the national level show that institutional responses resulted in a declined dominance of traditional Christians in both nations. However, these responses occurred in more social spheres and were more intensive in Suriname. Ideological responses are more overserved to dominance of Evangelicals in both nations, but these were stronger in Guyana.
