Item Detail
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4986
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0
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4
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English
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The Perception of Judeo-Christian Religions
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Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science
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April 1979
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11
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140-52
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"The study examined the perceptual structures underlying the 15 religions most familiar to middle-aged male Witnesses, Mormons, and Catholics. Multidimensional scaling procedures resulted in a principal Chosen People dimension in all three solutions. Other Witness dimensions were labelled Evaluative, Familiarity, and Ecclesiastical-Sectarian. Catholics used the additional dimensions of Church-Sectarian, Power, and Foreign-Local. The latter dimension was shared by the Mormons who additionally used Social Acceptability. The prominence of the Chosen People dimension was discussed in the light of an earlier study in which it appeared only as a minor factor with young Mormons." [Authors]