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Cosmologies of Pure Realms and the Rhetoric of Pollution book cover

1st Edition

Cosmologies of Pure Realms and the Rhetoric of Pollution

By Yohan Yoo, James W. Watts Copyright 2021
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge
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This collaboration between two scholars from different fields of religious studies draws on three comparative data sets to develop a new theory of purity and pollution in religion, arguing that a culture’s beliefs about cosmological realms shapes its pollution ideas and its purification practices. The authors of this study refine Mary Douglas’ foundational theory of pollution as "matter out of... Read more

Preface

1 Finding realms: Purity and pollution in theory and practice

Yohan Yoo and James W. Watts

2 Changing realms: Cosmology and pollution in ancient Near Eastern and Mediterranean cultures

Yohan Yoo and James W. Watts

3 Separating realms: Purity and pollution in the indigenous religion of Jeju-do, Korea

Yohan Yoo

4 Interpreting realms: Pollution and cosmology in the history of biblical rhetoric

James W. Watts

5 Feeling realms: Cosmology and bodily experiences of purity and pollution

James W. Watts And Yohan Yoo

Bibliography

Index of authors and shamans

Index of Subjects

Biography

Yohan Yoo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies in the College of Humanities at Seoul National University, Korea.

James W. Watts is Professor in the Department of Religion of the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University, USA.

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