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Cognitive Model of the Causal Explanation of
Anti-Semitism. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 64
The subjectively written content of the New
Testament have long been academically thought as
one source responsible for the historical persecution
of Jews. Theological judeophobia is a cornerstone
of the models explaining anti-Semitism. However,
recent history (and the
present) involves the very differently evolved
political anti-Semitism. If trying to explain
contemporary
prejudices and perception of Jewry, political
anti-Semitism should be as important a factor as the
theological one. The causal
explanatory models discussed here are models which
use
statistical methods to analyze the
contribution of different sources onto a final
phenomena, in this case anti-Semitism. Since the
existing
models reviewed (including cognitive models) do not
contain the political factor, the most relevant model
is modified to
accommodate political anti-Semitism into it's
structure. The statistical analysis is
based on a previously done, large Hungarian
empirical survey project of anti-Semitism. The study
concludes, that models including both source of
anti-Jewish sentiments are superior in explaining
contemporary anti-Semitism.
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