Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas
Dame Mary Douglas, DBE, FBAwas a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émile Durkheim and a proponent of structuralist analysis, with a strong interest in comparative religion...
communication years progress
Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.
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What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
grieving done terrorism
When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.
organization phases great-organizations
Any great organization can go through sectarian phases.
body human-body humans
The human body is always treated as an image of society.
christian growth made
It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
strong equality thinking
Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command.
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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination.
leader factions tense
Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
next steps arguing
Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.
egalitarianism islam principles
Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.
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It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.
moral pretension destructive
Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
unique order hygiene
If we can abstract pathogenicity and hygiene from our notion of dirt, we are left with the old definition of dirt as matter out of place. This is a very suggestive approach. It implies two conditions: a set of ordered relations and a contrevention of that order. Dirt then, is never a unique, isolated event. Where there is dirt there is a system. Dirt is the by-product of a systematic ordering and classification of matter, in so far as ordering involves rejecting inappropriate elements.