Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger

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An Analysis of Mary Douglas's Purity and DangerAn Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo\nAuthor(s): Pdraig Belton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Macat International Limited, United Kingdom\nImprint: Macat International Limited\nISBN-13: 9781912303922, 978-1912303922\nSynopsis\nMary 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.\n\nFirst evaluating he.