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portada Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (The Macat Library)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
127
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781912284634
Edition No.
1
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Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (The Macat Library)

Padraig Belton (Author) · Macat Library · Paperback

Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (The Macat Library) - Padraig Belton

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Synopsis "Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (The Macat Library)"

Mary Douglas is an outstanding example of an evaluative thinker at work. In Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo, she delves in great detail into existing arguments that portray traditional societies as "evolving" from "savage" beliefs in magic, to religion, to modern science, then explains why she believes those arguments are wrong. She also adeptly chaperones readers through a vast amount of data, from firsthand research in the Congo to close readings of the Old Testament, and analyzes it in depth to provide evidence that traditional and Western religions have more in common than the first comparative religion scholars and early anthropologists thought. First evaluating her scholarly predecessors by marshalling their arguments, Douglas identifies their main weakness: that they dismiss traditional societies and their religions by identifying their practices as "magic," thereby creating a chasm between savages who believe in magic and sophisticates who practice religion.

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