Evil - A Critical Primer - Kenneth G. MacKendrick
Classification and Magical Thinking
Evil - A Critical Primer - Kenneth G. MacKendrick
Kenneth G. MacKendrick [+]
Department of Religion University of Manitoba
Kenneth G. MacKendrick is Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Manitoba.
Description
Provides an overview of the power of classification and the relation of classification to dangers and aversions; key thinkers include Mary Douglas, Jonathan Z. Smith, and Bruce Lincoln; ethnographic examples will be drawn from Cantonese funerals, Maori cosmology, and Protestant purity debates (U.S.). This chapter will also include a discussion of “magical thinking” as the backbone of classificatory thinking.