Disgust and Difference: Conflicting Sensations of the Sacred
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| Publication date | 2020 |
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| Book title | The Secular Sacred |
| Book subtitle | Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion |
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| Series | Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series |
| Chapter | 12 |
| Pages (from-to) | 237-261 |
| Publisher | Cham: Palgrave Macmillan |
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| Abstract | Disgust of specific others is a universal phenomenon. Every now and then this pops up in spoken or written, denigrating and dehumanizing comparisons of fellow human beings with excrements. Verrips' contribution deals with such a comparison (found anno 2016 on glass containers in Berlin) of a specific socio-cultural category, already despised and persecuted in Europe for ages. He argues that it is possible to reach a deeper insight in this case of comparing humans with faeces, when one uses the theory of sacrifice as formulated in 1898 by Henri Hubert & Marcel Mauss. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38050-2_12
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