ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND ANTI-SEMITISM - A REPLICATION OF GLOCKAND STARK IN THE NETHERLANDS

The Glock and Stark theoretical framework on Christian beliefs and ant i-Semitism implies that orthodox religious beliefs perpetuate secular anti-Semitism via particularism and religious anti-Semitism. Several c ritics have argued that the major weakness of this study is its failur e to examine explanatory variables other than religious beliefs. This paper addresses these issues using data from a 1990-91 national Dutch survey. Although the results tend to support the assumption that nonre ligious variables are far more important to the explanation of anti-Se mitism and, too, that they attenuate the impact of Christian orthodoxy , the effects of the latter are by no means spurious. The most importa nt conclusion of this paper is therefore that there still is, in Holla nd at least, a religious factor at work, albeit a modest one, generati ng anti-Semitic beliefs.