The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils : Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean /

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 p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Patton, Kimberley Christine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2006]
Temas:
Marine pollution.
Ocean > Religious aspects.
Ocean.
Purity, Ritual.
Water > Religious aspects.
RELIGION / Comparative Religion.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Dutch Bread-Man
  • 2. The Crisis of Modern Marine Pollution
  • 3. The Purifying Sea in the Religious Imagination
  • 4. "The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils"
  • 5. "The Great Woman Down There"
  • 6. "O Ocean, I Ask You To Be Merciful"
  • 7· "Here End the Works of the Sea, the Works of Love"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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