Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Social Research
Angaben zur Quelle:
63,4 (1996) 1110-1154
Keywords:
Jews History
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Philosophy
;
Scapegoat History of doctrines
;
Antisemitism Psychological aspects
;
History
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Other (Philosophy) Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Christianity and antisemitism History
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Christianity and other religions Judaism
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History
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National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Causes
Abstract:
Suggests that, for Christians, the Jews are the classic outsiders or "Other". It is in the struggle against the Jew that the Christians have defined themselves. Contends that the Christians' treatment of the Jew as "Other" is a psychological consequence of the Church's universalistic doctrine which taught Christians to think in terms of the category of humanity as a whole rather than segments of humanity such as family, tribe, city-state, country, class, etc. As a result, in relation to humanity, Jews, serving as the "Other", could be categorized as "anti-humanity". Modern biological racism is an expansion of Christian doctrinal universalism, onto which the racial attribute has been grafted. Suggests that, in the mind of the West, the Jew remains forever the most readily available and imaginable target for exclusion.
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