Purity & Impurity Across Anthropology, Psychology & Religious Studies: Contaminating Disciplines
The central approach of the conference is to promote cross-disciplinary scholarly exploration and conversation on purity, impurity, and disgust by bringing together scholars contributing to the fields of anthropology, psychology, and religious studies. Questions of purity have played a significant role in these disciplines in recent years, but each discipline, in accord with its dominant methodology, has taken a different view on such questions.
The members of the Forum may be interested in the following talks:
20 May
12.00-13.00
Jonathan Klawans (Boston University): Was Kristeva Right... about Qumran? Methodological Implications of a Theoretical Coincidence
15.00-16.00
Holger Zellentin (University of Nottingham): Gentile Purity: From the Decree of Jesus' Apostles to the Qur'an
21 May
11.45-12.45
Mila Ginsburskaya (University of Roehampton): Between Freud and Mary Douglas: Sex and Death Drives in Biblical Purity Laws
16.15-17.15
Daniel Weiss (University of Cambridge): Possibilities for non-eliminationist approaches to impurity in biblical and early rabbinic literature