Discourses of purity in transcultural perspective (300-1600) / edited by Matthias Bley, Nikolas Jaspert, Stefan Köck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bley, Matthias, Editor.

Contributor:

Bley, Matthias, editor.

Jaspert, Nikolas, editor.

Köck, Stefan, editor.

Series:

Dynamics in the history of religion ; Volume 7.

Dynamics in the History of Religions, 1878-8106 ; Volume 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Purity, Ritual.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brill 2015

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While comparative studies on purity and impurity presented in the last decades have mostly concentrated on the ancient world or on modern developments, this volume focusses the hitherto comparatively neglected period between circa 300 and 1600 c. E. The collection is innovative because it not only combines papers on both European and Asian cultures but also considers a wide variety of religions and confessions. The articles are written by leading experts in the field and are presented in six systematic sections. This analytical categorization facilitates understanding the functional spectrum that the binomial purity and impurity could cover in past societies. The volume thus presents an in-depth comparative analysis of a category of paramount importance for interfaith relations and processes of transfer.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

An Introduction to Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective / Nikolas Jaspert

1 Early Medieval Churches as Cultic Space between Material and Ethical Purity / Miriam Czock

2 Some Brief Notes on Purity in Chinese Daoism / Hermann-Josef Röllicke

3 An Almost Tangible Presence: Some Thoughts on Material Purity among Medieval European Jews / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner

4 From ‘Clean’ to ‘Pure’ in Everyday Life in Late Imperial China: A Preliminary Enquiry / Paolo Santangelo

5 Discourses on Purity in Western Christianity in the Early and High Middle Ages / Hans-Werner Goetz

6 Purity between Semantics and History: Notes on Daoist Soteriology and Interreligious Encounters in Early Medieval China / Licia Di Giacinto

7 Purity of Language: A Short-Lived Concept in Medieval Hebrew Poetry / Elisabeth Hollender

8 Domum immundam a perversis violata mundavit. Viking Defilement in Early Medieval Francia / Matthias Bley

9 Washing Away the Dirt of the World of Desire—On Origins and Developments of Notions of Ritual Purity in Japanese Mountain Religions / Stefan Köck

10 Patterns of Intensification of the Laws on Ritual Purity in Medieval Jewish Ashkenaz / Hanna Liss

11 Religious Texts and the Islamic Purity Regime / Stefan Leder

12 Sons of Damnation: Franciscans, Muslims, and Christian Purity / Christopher MacEvitt

13 Purifying the Pure: The Visuddhimagga, Forest-Dwellers and the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Prestige in Theravāda Buddhism / Sven Bretfeld

14 Registers of Genealogical Purity in Classical Islam / Aziz al-Azmeh

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

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OCLC:

907808267

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004289758 DOI

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access