Abe W Ata
Biographic Data
| ID | 129015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abe W Ata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abe W |
| FAMILY NAME | Ata |
| SIGNATURE | ATA A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8120-3584 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Predictors of Macro Socio-Ecological Factors Affecting Minority-Muslims and Majority Non-Muslim Anglo Communities' Perceptions of Each Other
This study was carried out to determine if macro-level factors (namely, demographic and ecological factors) influence self-perceived social distance and actual social practice with individuals of different faith communities among tertiary students in Australian universities. The response drew several critical revelations, including 2 key findings: 1. Muslim and non-Muslim respondents largely befriend individuals of similar faith backgrounds, alth…
Social Distance and Intergroup Contact: German University Students’ Views on Islam and Muslims
The effects of intergroup contact in reducing prejudices have been well documented, but few studies have investigated the importance of the broader context within which contact occurs. This article examines the predictors of social distance from Muslims in a large sample of (non-Muslim) German university students (N = 404). Intergroup contact was an important predictor of reduced social distance even after demographics and perceptions of parents,…
Intergroup Contact and Social Distance Hypothesis: Australian University Students’ Views on Islam and Muslims
Australian and other Western survey research on intergroup contact, commonly referred to as “social distance”, has generally focused on negative attitudes and emotions as measures of prejudice. The current research, by contrast, investigates the level of social contact mainstream (non-Muslim) students in six Australian universities favor towards Muslims, as compared with other ethnicities. Three measures were used to test this proposition: interm…
Knowledge, False Beliefs and Fact Driven Perceptions of Muslims in German Universities
This paper examines what may constitute both positive and negative attitudes towards Muslims that we may predict from the scale of our knowledge, fashionable or well worn. In other words, are negative attitudes towards Muslim strongly correlated with false beliefs. The research was part of a larger study examining the attitudes of 424 non-Muslim German students in Freiburg and five other universities in Germany. The results show that participants…
Mental Anxieties, Bereavement, and Communication with the Dead Amongst Australian-Born
This article is based on survey of 269 households in the state of Victoria, Australia; 62 household of these are Australian born of a Christian background. This investigation tackles a much neglected, somewhat taboo and difficult area of family life and compares them with other religious and cultural groups: Significant differences were found with regards to health problems, grief expressions and practices, psychosomatic manifestations, communica…
Research note: How Muslims are perceived in Catholic schools in contemporary Australia: a national survey
This paper presents results from a large-scale national survey of attitudes of students in Catholic schools in Australia towards Muslims and Islam. Over 2232 students completed questionnaires which were obtained from students in 42 Catholic schools throughout Australia. These schools were drawn from both rural and urban areas in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland and South Western Australia. The findings include evidence of goodwill …
How Muslim Students Perceive Australia and Australians: A National Survey
Outlined below are selected results of a 5 year long national survey which Dr Abe Ata was commissioned to carry out in Australia. The survey investigated the knowledge, values and attitudes of 430 Year 11 and 12 Muslim students in 10 Muslim High schools towards the mainstream Australian society. The percentage of female participant students (57) was slightly higher than male students (43). Almost the entire sample (93) declared themselves to be M…
How Muslim Students’ Knowledge of Christianity Is Related to Their Attitudes to Mainstream Australia and Australians: A National Survey
Outlined below are selected results of a 5-year long national survey which investigated the knowledge, values and attitudes of 430 Year 11 and 12 Muslim students in eight Muslim High schools towards the mainstream Australia and Australians society. The findings reflect a wide spectrum of responses with a strong implication that much work is needed to bring about an appropriate degree of adjustment. Providing awareness sessions to students and par…
Bereavement anxieties and health amongst the Australian-Italian Catholic community
This article is based on survey of 269 households in the state of Victoria, Australia. It elicits some useful guidelines for professional caregivers in relation to eight cultural/religious groups including Australian-born Christians and Arab-born Muslims. The focus here is upon the relationships between the Australian Italian community and personal health outcomes during bereavement. The following sub-strata are examined: community differences in…
Contact, evaluation and social distance: Differentiating majority and minority effects
Entrapping Christian and Muslim Arabs in Racial Cartoons in Australia: The Other Anti-Semitism
Racial Cartoons are a powerful force disguised as entertainment operating to shape public opinion. During the 1980s, 1990s and after 9/11 in 2001, cartoons in the Australian press were particularly directed against Muslim and Christian Arabs without remorse or fear of redress or accountability. The offensive of such cartoons has essentially been directed on three fronts—oil, politics and religion. The drawback resulting from socio-cultural, histo…
Intergroup contact in context: The mediating role of social norms and group-based perceptions on the contact–prejudice link
Observing Different Faiths, Learning About Ourselves: Practice with Inter-married Muslims and Christians
The present article offers practitioners initial ideas for work with clients in mixed-faith relationships. Based on local, empirical research that investigated Muslim–Christian marriages, six patterns of adaptation to a mixed-faith marriage are outlined. In addition, from a practice-oriented review of the data, four questions are identified that can be used by practitioners to clarify their thinking and practice focus. Increasingly technical, the…
The West Bank Palestinian Family
Applied Anthropology: Social Change and Family Processes: Arab Communities in Shefar-A'm. Majid Al-Haj
Applied Anthropology: Contemporary North Africa: Issues of Development and Integration . Halim Barakat , ed
Pre‐War and Post‐War Lebanese Immigrants in Melbourne
The following paper forms part of a thesis on the Lebanese community in Melbourne. The Lebanese community in Australia has not been the subject of any systematic study and thus the author attempted to investigate as many facets as possible of the life style of Melbourne's Lebanese immigrants. The purpose of this paper is to examine the causes and characteristics of immigration from Lebanon to Melbourne before and after the Second World War
Intergroup contact in context: The mediating role of social norms and group-based perceptions on the contact–prejudice link
Contact, evaluation and social distance: Differentiating majority and minority effects
Intergroup Contact and Social Distance Hypothesis: Australian University Students’ Views on Islam and Muslims
Australian and other Western survey research on intergroup contact, commonly referred to as “social distance”, has generally focused on negative attitudes and emotions as measures of prejudice. The current research, by contrast, investigates the level of social contact mainstream (non-Muslim) students in six Australian universities favor towards Muslims, as compared with other ethnicities. Three measures were used to test this proposition: interm…
Observing Different Faiths, Learning About Ourselves: Practice with Inter-married Muslims and Christians
The present article offers practitioners initial ideas for work with clients in mixed-faith relationships. Based on local, empirical research that investigated Muslim–Christian marriages, six patterns of adaptation to a mixed-faith marriage are outlined. In addition, from a practice-oriented review of the data, four questions are identified that can be used by practitioners to clarify their thinking and practice focus. Increasingly technical, the…
Entrapping Christian and Muslim Arabs in Racial Cartoons in Australia: The Other Anti-Semitism
Racial Cartoons are a powerful force disguised as entertainment operating to shape public opinion. During the 1980s, 1990s and after 9/11 in 2001, cartoons in the Australian press were particularly directed against Muslim and Christian Arabs without remorse or fear of redress or accountability. The offensive of such cartoons has essentially been directed on three fronts—oil, politics and religion. The drawback resulting from socio-cultural, histo…
Pre‐War and Post‐War Lebanese Immigrants in Melbourne
The following paper forms part of a thesis on the Lebanese community in Melbourne. The Lebanese community in Australia has not been the subject of any systematic study and thus the author attempted to investigate as many facets as possible of the life style of Melbourne's Lebanese immigrants. The purpose of this paper is to examine the causes and characteristics of immigration from Lebanon to Melbourne before and after the Second World War
Applied Anthropology: Contemporary North Africa: Issues of Development and Integration . Halim Barakat , ed
The West Bank Palestinian Family
Applied Anthropology: Social Change and Family Processes: Arab Communities in Shefar-A'm. Majid Al-Haj
Observing Different Faiths, Learning About Ourselves: Practice with Inter-married Muslims and Christians
The present article offers practitioners initial ideas for work with clients in mixed-faith relationships. Based on local, empirical research that investigated Muslim–Christian marriages, six patterns of adaptation to a mixed-faith marriage are outlined. In addition, from a practice-oriented review of the data, four questions are identified that can be used by practitioners to clarify their thinking and practice focus. Increasingly technical, the…
Intergroup contact in context: The mediating role of social norms and group-based perceptions on the contact–prejudice link
Entrapping Christian and Muslim Arabs in Racial Cartoons in Australia: The Other Anti-Semitism
Racial Cartoons are a powerful force disguised as entertainment operating to shape public opinion. During the 1980s, 1990s and after 9/11 in 2001, cartoons in the Australian press were particularly directed against Muslim and Christian Arabs without remorse or fear of redress or accountability. The offensive of such cartoons has essentially been directed on three fronts—oil, politics and religion. The drawback resulting from socio-cultural, histo…
Bereavement anxieties and health amongst the Australian-Italian Catholic community
This article is based on survey of 269 households in the state of Victoria, Australia. It elicits some useful guidelines for professional caregivers in relation to eight cultural/religious groups including Australian-born Christians and Arab-born Muslims. The focus here is upon the relationships between the Australian Italian community and personal health outcomes during bereavement. The following sub-strata are examined: community differences in…
Contact, evaluation and social distance: Differentiating majority and minority effects
How Muslim Students’ Knowledge of Christianity Is Related to Their Attitudes to Mainstream Australia and Australians: A National Survey
Outlined below are selected results of a 5-year long national survey which investigated the knowledge, values and attitudes of 430 Year 11 and 12 Muslim students in eight Muslim High schools towards the mainstream Australia and Australians society. The findings reflect a wide spectrum of responses with a strong implication that much work is needed to bring about an appropriate degree of adjustment. Providing awareness sessions to students and par…
Mental Anxieties, Bereavement, and Communication with the Dead Amongst Australian-Born
This article is based on survey of 269 households in the state of Victoria, Australia; 62 household of these are Australian born of a Christian background. This investigation tackles a much neglected, somewhat taboo and difficult area of family life and compares them with other religious and cultural groups: Significant differences were found with regards to health problems, grief expressions and practices, psychosomatic manifestations, communica…
Research note: How Muslims are perceived in Catholic schools in contemporary Australia: a national survey
This paper presents results from a large-scale national survey of attitudes of students in Catholic schools in Australia towards Muslims and Islam. Over 2232 students completed questionnaires which were obtained from students in 42 Catholic schools throughout Australia. These schools were drawn from both rural and urban areas in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, Queensland and South Western Australia. The findings include evidence of goodwill …
How Muslim Students Perceive Australia and Australians: A National Survey
Outlined below are selected results of a 5 year long national survey which Dr Abe Ata was commissioned to carry out in Australia. The survey investigated the knowledge, values and attitudes of 430 Year 11 and 12 Muslim students in 10 Muslim High schools towards the mainstream Australian society. The percentage of female participant students (57) was slightly higher than male students (43). Almost the entire sample (93) declared themselves to be M…
Knowledge, False Beliefs and Fact Driven Perceptions of Muslims in German Universities
This paper examines what may constitute both positive and negative attitudes towards Muslims that we may predict from the scale of our knowledge, fashionable or well worn. In other words, are negative attitudes towards Muslim strongly correlated with false beliefs. The research was part of a larger study examining the attitudes of 424 non-Muslim German students in Freiburg and five other universities in Germany. The results show that participants…
Social Distance and Intergroup Contact: German University Students’ Views on Islam and Muslims
The effects of intergroup contact in reducing prejudices have been well documented, but few studies have investigated the importance of the broader context within which contact occurs. This article examines the predictors of social distance from Muslims in a large sample of (non-Muslim) German university students (N = 404). Intergroup contact was an important predictor of reduced social distance even after demographics and perceptions of parents,…
Intergroup Contact and Social Distance Hypothesis: Australian University Students’ Views on Islam and Muslims
Australian and other Western survey research on intergroup contact, commonly referred to as “social distance”, has generally focused on negative attitudes and emotions as measures of prejudice. The current research, by contrast, investigates the level of social contact mainstream (non-Muslim) students in six Australian universities favor towards Muslims, as compared with other ethnicities. Three measures were used to test this proposition: interm…
Predictors of Macro Socio-Ecological Factors Affecting Minority-Muslims and Majority Non-Muslim Anglo Communities' Perceptions of Each Other
This study was carried out to determine if macro-level factors (namely, demographic and ecological factors) influence self-perceived social distance and actual social practice with individuals of different faith communities among tertiary students in Australian universities. The response drew several critical revelations, including 2 key findings: 1. Muslim and non-Muslim respondents largely befriend individuals of similar faith backgrounds, alth…
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