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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Patton, Kimberley C. (Kimberley Christine), 1958-
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2007], ©2007.
Subjects:
Water > Religious aspects.
Ocean > Religious aspects.
Ocean.
Marine pollution.
Purity, Ritual.
Physical Description:xx, 185 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Dutch bread-man : ocean as divinity and scapegoat
  • The crisis of modern marine pollution
  • The purifying sea in the religious imagination : supernatural aspects of natural elements
  • "The sea can wash away all evils" : ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea
  • "The great woman down there" : Sedna and ritual pollution in Inuit seascapes
  • "O ocean, I ask you to be merciful" : the Hindu submarine mare-fire
  • "Here end the works of the sea, the works of love".