Discourses of purity in transcultural perspective (300-1600) / / edited by Matthias Bley, Nikolas Jaspert, Stefan Köck.

• Superior document: Dynamics in the History of Religions, Volume 7
• TeilnehmendeR: Bley, Matthias,; Jaspert, Nikolas,; Köck, Stefan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Dynamics in the history of religion ; Volume 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; An Introduction to Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective /; 1 Early Medieval Churches as Cultic Space between Material and Ethical Purity /; 2 Some Brief Notes on Purity in Chinese Daoism /; 3 An Almost Tangible Presence: Some Thoughts on Material Purity among Medieval European Jews /; 4 From ‘Clean’ to ‘Pure’ in Everyday Life in Late Imperial China: A Preliminary Enquiry /; 5 Discourses on Purity in Western Christianity in the Early and High Middle Ages /; 6 Purity between Semantics and History: Notes on Daoist Soteriology and Interreligious Encounters in Early Medieval China /; 7 Purity of Language: A Short-Lived Concept in Medieval Hebrew Poetry /; 8 Domum immundam a perversis violata mundavit. Viking Defilement in Early Medieval Francia /; 9 Washing Away the Dirt of the World of Desire—On Origins and Developments of Notions of Ritual Purity in Japanese Mountain Religions /; 10 Patterns of Intensification of the Laws on Ritual Purity in Medieval Jewish Ashkenaz /; 11 Religious Texts and the Islamic Purity Regime /; 12 Sons of Damnation: Franciscans, Muslims, and Christian Purity /; 13 Purifying the Pure: The Visuddhimagga, Forest-Dwellers and the Dynamics of Individual and Collective Prestige in Theravāda Buddhism /; 14 Registers of Genealogical Purity in Classical Islam /; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• ISSN: 1878-8106
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Matthias Bley, Nikolas Jaspert, Stefan Köck.

While comparative studies on purity and impurity presented in the last decades have mostly concentrated on the ancient world or on modern developments, this volume focusses the hitherto comparatively neglected period between circa 300 and 1600 c. E. The collection is innovative because it not only combines papers on both European and Asian cultures but also considers a wide variety of religions and confessions. The articles are written by leading experts in the field and are presented in six systematic sections. This analytical categorization facilitates understanding the functional spectrum that the binomial purity and impurity could cover in past societies. The volume thus presents an in-depth comparative analysis of a category of paramount importance for interfaith relations and processes of transfer.