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Title |
Title of document |
Classification and Magical Thinking - Evil |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Kenneth MacKendrick; Department of Religion
University of Manitoba; Canada |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
evil; cross-cultural; morality; heuristic; religious concepts; cultural religion; cognitive religion; classification; myth; ritual; Mary Douglas; Jonathan Z. Smith; Bruce Lincoln; ethnography; Cantonese funerals; Maori cosmology; magical thinking |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Religious studies; religious categories; evil; anthropological relgion; cultural religion |
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Description |
Abstract |
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. |
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Publisher |
Organizing agency, location |
Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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29-Aug-2023 |
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Type |
Status & genre |
Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/32884 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.32884 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Evil |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |