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
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Boston
Brill
[2015], 2015
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Series: | Dynamics in the history of religions, 1878-8106
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Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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 |
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Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (vi, 372 pages |
ISBN: | 9004289747 9004289755 9789004289741 |