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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kimberley Christine PattonPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9780231138062ISBN 10: 0231138067 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 12 December 2006 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Language: English Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. The Dutch Bread-Man: Ocean as Divinity and Scapegoat 2. The Crisis of Modern Marine Pollution 3. The Purifying Sea in the Religious Imagination: Supernatural Aspects of Natural Elements 4. The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils : Ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea 5. The Great Woman Down There : Sedna and Ritual Pollution in Inuit Seascapes 6. O Ocean, I Ask You To Be Merciful : The Hindu Submarine Mare-Fire 7. Here End the Works of the Sea, the Works of Love Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationKimberley C. Patton (PhD, Religion, Harvard) is Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity (Oxford, 2009), which and won the 2010 American Academy of Religion Book Award for Excellence in Religious Studies in the Analytical-Descriptive category, and The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean (Columbia, 2006) and the editor of (with Benjamin Ray) A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age (California, 2000), (with John Stratton Hawley) Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination (Princeton, 2005), and (with Paul Waldau) A Communion of Subjects: Animals in Religion, Science, and Ethics (Columbia, 2006). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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