Separation and Its Discontents
Subtitle: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism
Publisher: 1st Books Library
Published: November 17, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781410792617
Subjects: Judaism - General; Religion / Judaism / General; Religion - Judaism
First sentence: The theory of group evolutionary strategies described in A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy (MacDonald 1994; hereafter PTSDA) argued that Judaism may be understood mainly as a cultural invention, maintained by social controls that act to structure the behavior of group members and characterized by a religious ideology that rationalizes ingroup behavior both to ingroup members and to outsiders.