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Mary Douglas

"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."

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"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."

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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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"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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"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
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"Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications."
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"It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat."
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"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
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