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Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...

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Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transce...

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I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the persona...

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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distr...

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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threa...

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Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordina...

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

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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

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Mary Douglas

Anthropologist

Born: 1921-03-25

Died: 2007-05-16

Mary Douglas (nee Tew) (1921 – May 16, 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism. Her area is social anthropology, where she is considered a follower of Émile Durkheim, with a strong interest in comparative religion. She was born in Sanremo, Italy.More