Purity and danger now : new perspectives

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Introduction
PART I Anthropology
	1 Purity as danger: ‘Purity and Danger revisited’ at fifty
	2 Purity and punning: political fundamentalism and semantic pollution
	3 Garbage at work: ethics, subjectivation and resistance in Mexico
	4 There’s power in the dirt: impurity, utopianism and radical politics
PART II Psychology
	5 Disgust in the moral realm: do all roads lead to character?
	6 Disgust, disease and disorder: impurity as a mechanism for psychopathology
	7 Distinguishing disgust from fear: the vomit and faint defenses
	8 Clean-moral effects and clean-slate effects: Physical cleansing as an embodied procedure of psychological separation
	9 Cleanliness issues: from individual practices to collective visions
PART III Humanities: religious studies and the arts
	10 Purity and the West: Christianity, secularism and the impurity of ritual
	11 Impurity without repression: Julia Kristeva and the biblical possibilities of a non-eliminationist construction of religious purity
	12 Was Kristeva right . . . about Qumran? Methodological implications of a theoretical coincidence
	13 Purity and disgust in Shakespeare’s problem plays
	14 Purity, painting and peeing out the window
The mind beyond boundaries: Concluding remarks
Index