| Authors |
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| Publication date |
2020
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| Host editors |
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M. Balkenhol
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E. van den Hemel
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I. Stengs
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| Book title |
The Secular Sacred
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| Book subtitle |
Emotions of Belonging and the Perils of Nation and Religion
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| ISBN |
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9783030380496
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9783030380526
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| ISBN (electronic) |
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| Series |
Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series
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| Chapter |
12
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| Pages (from-to) |
237-261
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| Publisher |
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) - Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
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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.
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| Document type |
Chapter
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38050-2_12
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