| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 185 pages) |
| Contents |
The Dutch bread-man : ocean as divinity and scapegoat -- The crisis of modern marine pollution -- The purifying sea in the religious imagination : supernatural aspects of natural elements -- "The sea can wash away all evils" : ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea -- "The great woman down there" : Sedna and ritual pollution in Inuit seascapes -- "O ocean, I ask you to be merciful" : the Hindu submarine mare-fire -- "Here end the works of the sea, the works of love." |
| Summary |
Kimberley Patton examines the environmental crises facing the world's oceans from the perspective of religious history. Much as the ancient Greeks believed, and Euripides wrote, that ""the sea can wash away all evils, "" a wide range of cultures have sacralized the sea, trusting in its power to wash away what is dangerous, dirty, and morally contaminating. The sea makes life on land possible by keeping it ""pure.""Patton sets out to learn whether the treatment of the world's oceans by industrialized nations arises from the same faith in their infinite and regenerative qualities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Water -- Religious aspects.
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Ocean -- Religious aspects.
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Ocean.
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Marine pollution.
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Purity, Ritual.
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marine pollution.
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oceans (marine bodies of water)
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RELIGION -- Comparative Religion.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Marine pollution
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Ocean
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Ocean -- Religious aspects
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Purity, Ritual
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Water -- Religious aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0231510853 |
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9780231510851 |
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