Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300-1600)
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.; Readership: All interested...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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| Series: | Dynamics in the History of Religions
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| Online Access: | OAPEN Library: download the publication OAPEN Library: description of the publication |
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| 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.; Readership: All interested in processes of interaction between societies and inidividuals of different creeds and cultures: historians, anthropologists, theologians. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (396 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9789004289758 9789004289741 |
| Access: | Open Access |