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Purity and Danger Now Robbie Duschinsky (University of Cambridge)

Purity and Danger Now By Robbie Duschinsky (University of Cambridge)

Purity and Danger Now by Robbie Duschinsky (University of Cambridge)

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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 cu

Purity and Danger Now Summary

Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives by Robbie Duschinsky (University of Cambridge)

Mary Douglas's seminal work Purity and Danger (Routledge, 1966) continues to be indispensable reading for both students and scholars today. Marking the 50th anniversary of Douglas's classic, the present volume sheds fresh light upon 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.

Containing contributions from both established and emerging scholars, including protegees of Douglas herself, Purity and Danger Now is an essential volume for those working on purity and impurity across the full spectrum of the social sciences and humanities.

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If Purity and Danger Now were simply a reappraisal of an anthropological classic, it would already be a welcome and timely contribution to the many disciplines her work has affected. To its credit, this collection does much more than that. Whereas Douglas highlighted the primacy of the social in structuring categories of purity and impurity, her influential point is here extended, complemented, and corrected by recent insights from social psychological analyses of disgust, new approaches to the agency of matter, and innovative scholarly trends in Judaic studies, literature, and painting.
Christopher Forth, University of Kansas, USA

Few edited collections work as a whole in the way Purity and Danger Now does; from the introduction through to the conclusion, every chapter is accessible, interesting and, most importantly, makes the reader think more about their own ideas. In addition to being a timely reconsideration and development of Mary Douglas's important work, the book stands on its own as a major contribution to psychosocial and cultural theorisation. It is a book to buy, treasure and keep for any student and researcher across the social sciences, humanities and arts.
Debbie Epstein, University of Roehampton, UK

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is available as a Routledge Classic text www.routledge.com/9780415289955

About Robbie Duschinsky (University of Cambridge)

Robbie Duschinsky is University Lecturer in Social Sciences in the School of Clinical Medicine at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Simone Schnall is Reader in Experimental Social Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Daniel H. Weiss is Polonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

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

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NLS9780367878382
9780367878382
0367878380
Purity and Danger Now: New Perspectives by Robbie Duschinsky (University of Cambridge)
Robbie Duschinsky (University of Cambridge)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2019-12-12
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