商品簡介
Across the globe and from prehistory to the present, twenty-three contributors consider the concept of purity. With an interdisciplinary approach, this volume developed by investigating changes and dynamics of rituals. Curator Rosch and Simon (languages, Heidelberg University) pose several questions: how do concepts of purity come into being, and what purpose do they serve? How do researchers actually come to subsume certain phenomena under the concept of purity? Why is this subject being researched and why should we still deal with it today? Purity is discussed in terms of five dimensions: action or techniques of purity, of concepts of purity, their visual and verbal representations, the experiences or emotions connected with these concepts and the daily internalization of them. Broadly, the book aims to treat how the fields have come to be related to one another in the social context. This is a book for scholars and students in the social sciences and religion. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
