This blog is not for educational purposes only. It is a discussion. A discussion between myself, my readings, possibly my professor, and hopefully the reader.
First here is the background of Religion 320: Fascination Disgust and The Body
In this course our main goal is an effort to define disgust as fascination, fear, danger, emotion or feeling through readings and discussions. I am taking this discussion out of the classroom and onto the web to bring in the world and different cultures for insight. Our primary reading material is Millers' Anatomy of Disgust and Mary Douglas' Purity and Danger, we have already covered a lengthy amount of material but I will go back and explain my thoughts further. Along with these two texts there is a large amount of supplementary material most of which concerns religious practices and rituals, many I was unfamiliar with until now.
For the course we have to do a final project. This blog is going to be a supplement to my project, a lengthy report and analysis of Martha Nussbaums' Hiding from Humanity.
I hope you (the reader) can take something from my thoughts, readings, theories and ideas and will take the initiative to contribute.
