Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism
Particular attention is paid to three major manifestations of Western anti-Semitism: the development of institutionalized anti-Semitism in the Roman Empire, the Iberian Inquisitions, and the phenomenon of Nazism. All of these movements exhibited a powerful gentile group cohesion in opposition to Judaism as a group strategy, and MacDonald argues that each may be analyzed as a reaction to the presence of Judaism as a highly successful group evolutionary strategy. Because of the repeated occurrence of anti-Semitism, Jews have developed a highly flexible array of strategies to minimize its effects. These include: crypsis during periods of persecution, controls on Jewish behavior likely to lead to anti-Semitism, and the manipulation of gentile attitudes toward Jews. This controversial work challenges prevailing views. Students and scholars involved with evolutionary approaches to human behavior and Jewish Studies will be interested, as will social scientists and historians in general. |
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... collectivism , ingroup norms and the duty to cooperate and subordinate individual goals to the needs of the group are paramount . Collectivist cultures develop an " unquestioned attachment " to the ingroup , including " the perception ...
... collectivist end of the individual- ism / collectivism dimension . These charismatic groups are highly cohesive , collectivist , and authoritarian ( e.g. , Galanter 1989a , b ; Levine 1989 ; Deutsch 1989 ) . Within the group there is a ...
... collectivist and exclusionary medieval Christian society - another example of Western collectivism with powerful overtones of anti - Semitism . Thirteenth - century Western Christianity was , ideally at least , a societas christiana ...
Contents
THEMES OF ANTISEMITISM | 27 |
REACTIVE ANTISEMITISM IN | 89 |
THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD | 115 |
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Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development Robert G. Burgess,Kevin MacDonald Limited preview - 2005 |