Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600)
Contributor(s)
Bley, Matthias (editor)
Jaspert, Nikolas (editor)
Köck, Stefan (editor)
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.; Readership: All interested in processes of interaction between societies and inidividuals of different creeds and cultures: historians, anthropologists, theologians.
Keywords
Religion; History of religionISBN
9789004289741, 9789004289758Publisher
BrillPublisher website
http://www.brill.comPublication date and place
2015Imprint
BRILLSeries
Dynamics in the History of Religions,Classification
History of religion
History of religion