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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Press,
2007
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 power to wash away what is dangerous, dirty, and morally contaminating. The sea makes life on land possible by keeping it ""pure.""Patton sets out to learn whether the treatment of the world's oceans by industrialized nations arises from the same faith in their infinite and regenerative qualities. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 185 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0231510853 9780231510851 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
