Matthias Bley , Nikolas Jaspert andStefan Köck
Publisher:
Brill
Publication Year:
2015
Abstract:
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.
Table of Contents:
Preface
An Introduction to Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective
Section 1 Material Purity
Chapter 1 Early Medieval Churches as Cultic Space between Material and Ethical Purity
Chapter 2 Some Brief Notes on Purity in Chinese Daoism
Chapter 3 An Almost Tangible Presence: Some Thoughts on Material Purity among Medieval European Jews
Section 2 Ethical and Moral Purity
Chapter 4 From 'Clean' to 'Pure' in Everyday Life in Late Imperial China: A Preliminary Enquiry
Chapter 5 Discourses on Purity in Western Christianity in the Early and High Middle Ages
Section 3 Purity of Spirit and Thought
Chapter 6 Purity between Semantics and History: Notes on Daoist Soteriology and Interreligious Encounters in Early Medieval China
Chapter 7 Purity of Language: A Short-lived Concept in Medieval Hebrew Poetry
Section 4 Purity of Cult
Chapter 8 Domum immundam a perversis violata mundavit. Viking Defilement in Early Medieval Francia
Chapter 9 Washing Away the Dirt of the World of Desire-On Origins and Developments of Notions of Ritual Purity in Japanese Mountain Religions
Chapter 10 Patterns of Intensification of the Laws on Ritual Purity in Medieval Jewish Ashkenaz
Section 5 Concepts of Textual Purity
Chapter 11 Religious Texts and the Islamic Purity Regime
Section 6 Concepts of Genealogical Purity
Chapter 12 Sons of Damnation: Franciscans, Muslims, and Christian Purity
Chapter 13 Purifying the Pure: The Visuddhimagga, Forest-Dwellers and the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Prestige in Theravāda Buddhism
Chapter 14 Registers of Genealogical Purity in Classical Islam
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