Mary Douglas
Scientist
1921-03-25
Books by Mary Douglas
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Natural Symbols
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Rules and Meanings
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Quotes by Mary Douglas
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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
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The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.
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Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.
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Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.
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An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.
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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?
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Yes, disappointment over perceived unfairness, injustice, promises not kept, tends to go hand in hand with increasing prosperity. Expectations are dashed. What can I say!
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It's unlikely that the organized religions will get more sectarian... or is it? I am not at all sure.
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The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.
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It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.
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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.
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Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
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Our technological infrastructure alienates us from each other. No need to form a workplace community, everybody there will be out in a year or two, and so will you, looking for a better place.
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