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Title Discourses of purity in transcultural perspective (300-1600) / edited by Matthias Bley, Nikolas Jaspert, Stefan Kock
Published Boston : Brill, [2015]

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Description 1 electronic resource (vi, 372 pages)
Series Dynamics in the history of religions, 1878-8106 ; VOLUME 7
Dynamics in the history of religion ; v. 7.
Contents Preface; An Introduction to Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective; Section 1 Material Purity; Chapter 1 Early Medieval Churches as Cultic Space between Material and Ethical Purity; Chapter 2 Some Brief Notes on Purity in Chinese Daoism; Chapter 3 An Almost Tangible Presence: Some Thoughts on Material Purity among Medieval European Jews; Section 2 Ethical and Moral Purity; Chapter 4 From 'Clean' to 'Pure' in Everyday Life in Late Imperial China: A Preliminary Enquiry; Chapter 5 Discourses on Purity in Western Christianity in the Early and High Middle Ages
Section 3 Purity of Spirit and ThoughtChapter 6 Purity between Semantics and History: Notes on Daoist Soteriology and Interreligious Encounters in Early Medieval China; Chapter 7 Purity of Language: A Short-lived Concept in Medieval Hebrew Poetry; Section 4 Purity of Cult; Chapter 8 Domum immundam a perversis violata mundavit. Viking Defilement in Early Medieval Francia; Chapter 9 Washing Away the Dirt of the World of Desire-On Origins and Developments of Notions of Ritual Purity in Japanese Mountain Religions
Chapter 10 Patterns of Intensification of the Laws on Ritual Purity in Medieval Jewish AshkenazSection 5 Concepts of Textual Purity; Chapter 11 Religious Texts and the Islamic Purity Regime; Section 6 Concepts of Genealogical Purity; Chapter 12 Sons of Damnation: Franciscans, Muslims, and Christian Purity; Chapter 13 Purifying the Pure: The Visuddhimagga, Forest-Dwellers and the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Prestige in Theravāda Buddhism; Chapter 14 Registers of Genealogical Purity in Classical Islam; Index
Summary This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus processes of religious demarcation and transfer
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-366) and index
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Subject Purity, Ritual.
RELIGION -- Reference.
RELIGION / History
Purity, Ritual
Form Electronic book
Author Bley, Matthias, editor
LC no. 2021759046
ISBN 9789004289758
9004289755