The sea can wash away all evils : modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean /

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, trus...

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Main Author: Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine), 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2007
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