The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils : : Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean / / Kimberley Christine Patton.
Kimberley Patton examines the environmental crises facing the world's oceans from the perspective of religious history. Much as the ancient Greeks believed, and Euripides wrote, that "the sea can wash away all evils," a wide range of cultures have sacralized the sea, trusting in its p...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2006] ©2006 |
Year of Publication: | 2006 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Dutch Bread-Man
- 2. The Crisis of Modern Marine Pollution
- 3. The Purifying Sea in the Religious Imagination
- 4. "The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils"
- 5. "The Great Woman Down There"
- 6. "O Ocean, I Ask You To Be Merciful"
- 7· "Here End the Works of the Sea, the Works of Love"
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index