The sea can wash away all evils : modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean /

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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, trus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine), 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Water > Religious aspects.
Ocean > Religious aspects.
Ocean.
Marine pollution.
Purity, Ritual.
Eau > Aspect religieux.
Mer > Aspect religieux.
Mer.
Pollution marine.
Pureté rituelle.
marine pollution.
oceans (marine bodies of water)
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Marine pollution
Ocean
Ocean > Religious aspects
Purity, Ritual
Water > Religious aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."

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