Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138693708 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 286 str.

Robbie Duschinsky; Simone Schnall; Daniel Weiss

Opis

Mary Douglas s seminal Purity and Danger (Routledge, 1966) continues to be crucial reading for students and scholars. Published in the 50th anniversary year, Purity and Danger Now sets out to shed fresh light upon the themes raised by Douglas by drawing on recent developments in the social sciences and humanities, as well as current empirical research. In presenting new perspectives on the topic of purity and impurity, the volume integrates work in anthropology and sociology with contemporary ideas from religious studies, cognitive science and the arts. This new volume contains contributions from both established and emerging scholars, many of them protegees of Douglas herself. It will be an essential reference for those working on purity and pollution across anthropology, sociology, pyschology and other disciplines.
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Spis treści

1. Purity as danger: ‘Purity and Danger revisited’ at fifty  2. Purity and Punning: Political Fundamentalism and Semantic Pollution  Chapter  3. Garbage at Work: Ethics, Subjectivation and Resistance  4. There’s Power in the Dirt: Impurity, Utopianism & Radical Politics  5. Disgust in the Moral Realm: Do All Roads Lead To Character?  6. Disgust, Disease, and Disorder: Impurity as a Mechanism for Psychopathology  7. Distinguishing Disgust From Fear  8. Clean-Moral Effects and Clean-Slate Effects: Physical Cleansing as an Embodied Procedure of Separation  9. Cleanliness Issues: From Individual Practices to Collective Visions  10. Purity and the West: Christianity, Secularism, and the Impurity of Ritual  11. Impurity without repression: Julia Kristeva and the biblical possibilities of a non-eliminationist construction of religious purity  12. Was Kristeva Right… about Qumran? Methodological Implications of a Theoretical Coincidence  13. Purity and Disgust in Shakespeare’s Problem Plays  14. Purity, Painting, and Peeing Out the Window