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How purity is made / edited by Petra Rösch and Udo Simon.

Contributor(s): Rösch, Petra [edt] | Simon, Udo [edt]
Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, German, French Publisher: Wiesbaden : Otto Harrassowitz, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: x, 492 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783447065429; 3447065427Subject(s): Purity, Ritual -- Congresses | Purity (Philosophy) -- CongressesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Why purity? : an introduction / Udo Simon -- Biophysicality and purity / Virginia Smith -- The perils of cleanliness / Brendan Strejcek & Chen-Bo Zhong -- Le concept de pureté/impureté en Anatolie hittite / Alice Mouton -- Purifying the king by means of prisoners, fish, a goose, and a duck : some remarks on the Mesopotamian notions of purity / Claus Ambos -- Reinigen durch Anschwärzen? Zum Motiv des Antagonistischen in ägyptischen Reinigungsritualen / Joachim Friedrich Quack -- Greek ritual purity : from automatisms to moral distinctions / Angelos Chaniotis -- Ritual purity in Jewish lore and law / Hanna Liss -- Purifying memory in the Middle Ages : cleansing soul, deleting remembrances, and the example of the attempted purge of Rudolf of Rheinfelden / Gerald Schwedler -- Rituals and certificates of rehabilitation in the Nepalese Mulukī Ain of 1854 / Axel Michaels -- Purity, beauty and luxury as performative categories in Hindu rituals and beyond / Beatrix Hauser -- The purifying power of the Buddhas / Petra H. Rösch --
How impurity is concealed and revealed : the case of the so-called Burakumin in contemporary Japan / Klaus Vollmer -- Leniency, severity, and hierarchies of purity in the Islamic law of Ṭahāra / Marion H. Katz -- Pure blood and the martyr : ritual potential among modern Cairene Salafis / Richard Gauvain -- Practices and meanings of purity and worship among young Sunni Muslims in Germany / Paula Schrode -- Nation, Islam, and purity : the world-view of Turkish ultranationalists in Germany / Emre Arslan -- Purity in danger : strategies of purifiying oneself in a hostile environment : the case of Soviet Central Asia / Olaf Günther -- From purity to cleanliness : changing concepts in Mongolia / Ines Stolpe -- Purifying America : rites of salvation in the Soap Campaign / Kathryn Lofton -- Zion's pure of heart : personal and institutional purity in Mormonism / Walter van Beek & Richard Taselaar -- Purification in the healing rituals of the Congolese migrant church Le Combat Spirituel / Julie Ndaya -- Pure heritage : indigenous, missionary, and anthropological constructions of sexual purity in South Africa / David Chidester.

Selections originally presented at a conference in February 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why purity? : an introduction / Udo Simon -- Biophysicality and purity / Virginia Smith -- The perils of cleanliness / Brendan Strejcek & Chen-Bo Zhong -- Le concept de pureté/impureté en Anatolie hittite / Alice Mouton -- Purifying the king by means of prisoners, fish, a goose, and a duck : some remarks on the Mesopotamian notions of purity / Claus Ambos -- Reinigen durch Anschwärzen? Zum Motiv des Antagonistischen in ägyptischen Reinigungsritualen / Joachim Friedrich Quack -- Greek ritual purity : from automatisms to moral distinctions / Angelos Chaniotis -- Ritual purity in Jewish lore and law / Hanna Liss -- Purifying memory in the Middle Ages : cleansing soul, deleting remembrances, and the example of the attempted purge of Rudolf of Rheinfelden / Gerald Schwedler -- Rituals and certificates of rehabilitation in the Nepalese Mulukī Ain of 1854 / Axel Michaels -- Purity, beauty and luxury as performative categories in Hindu rituals and beyond / Beatrix Hauser -- The purifying power of the Buddhas / Petra H. Rösch --

How impurity is concealed and revealed : the case of the so-called Burakumin in contemporary Japan / Klaus Vollmer -- Leniency, severity, and hierarchies of purity in the Islamic law of Ṭahāra / Marion H. Katz -- Pure blood and the martyr : ritual potential among modern Cairene Salafis / Richard Gauvain -- Practices and meanings of purity and worship among young Sunni Muslims in Germany / Paula Schrode -- Nation, Islam, and purity : the world-view of Turkish ultranationalists in Germany / Emre Arslan -- Purity in danger : strategies of purifiying oneself in a hostile environment : the case of Soviet Central Asia / Olaf Günther -- From purity to cleanliness : changing concepts in Mongolia / Ines Stolpe -- Purifying America : rites of salvation in the Soap Campaign / Kathryn Lofton -- Zion's pure of heart : personal and institutional purity in Mormonism / Walter van Beek & Richard Taselaar -- Purification in the healing rituals of the Congolese migrant church Le Combat Spirituel / Julie Ndaya -- Pure heritage : indigenous, missionary, and anthropological constructions of sexual purity in South Africa / David Chidester.

In English, with one German and one French contribution.

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