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| | The birth of the pariah: Jews, Christian dualism, and social science Social Research - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | WE SHOULD be surprised to discover Jews embraced by the word "pariah." A term plucked from the caste systems of the Asian subcontinent, its application to a Western and Near Eastern minority might seem to imply that all oppressed are oppressed in the same way. |
 | | They "stimulated Weber's concept formation in the sociology of religion, resulting in such concepts as ethical prophecy, salvation religiosity and rational ethical religiosity, as well as resentment, the religiosity of retribution, the situation of a pariah people, pariah intellectualism, and pariah religiosity" (Schluchter, 1989: 164). |
 | | The history of capitalism was driven by the migrations of the Jewish people, and had nothing to do with Christian theology. |
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