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Mary Douglas & Steven Ney. 1998. Missing Persons: A Critique of the Social Sciences, The Aaron Wildavsky Forum for Public Policy. Berkeley : New York: University of California Press ; Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN 9780520207523 A copy of Missing Persons arrived in excellent condition, while heading towards 30 years old. Bought in my reading to catch-up with the work of anthropologist by…

There is a type of social scientism which is called technocracy (and not sciencarchy I’m afraid, which is an attempt at a neologism, but I did not get there first, see references). Technocracy has been overshadowed in recent decades by the term technocrat which is a type of bureaucrat who uses some sort of mathematical based science to determine processes…

Mapping Christian byways of worldbuilding by way of a flowchart. an aside The usage of terms like “worldbuilding” here is the reason this writing has been written, i.e. I hope I can more fully explore and explain what wworlding is, as a substitute for a lot of 'things' that are outcomes of the moral/worlding urge, but we treat as causal,…

Over the last week I have been reading Jörg Rüpke’s On Roman Religion: Lived Religion and the Individual in Ancient Rome. books.google.com/ngrams/ It’s a whole world of pain. For more discussion on Appropriation (art) and Reappropriation see Mary Beth Willard’s 'Why It’s Ok to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists' So, at dinner the other night I was at the second stage of…

Sister Wendy was a Carmelite nun who gained famed as an interpreter of art, especially on free-to-air television in the 1990s, and whose passion for this vocation was irrepressible. All images of text and quotes are grabs from Sister Wendy Beckett's The Mystery of Love: Saints in Art through the Centuries (London: HarperCollins, 1996) #ISBN0551030121 The Carmelites are a Catholic…

This post follows on from discovering that belief in belief, or believing in believing, or having faith in faith— is a heresy in the biggest Christian Churches, because obedience. I covered this in : I was at work when first writing those posts, and while cataloguing books into a library system I discovered the following from Arnold Lunn’s The Revolt…