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Purity

Collection created July 2025

49 Total Resources

49 resources. Showing results 1 through 10.

Blood and Bodies Purity and Covenant in Jewish and Christian History
Uploaded October, 2022
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- journal article
- religious studies and theology
- blood
- judaism
- christianity
- covenant
- sacrifice
- menstruation
- feminist theology
- body
- women
- purity
- hebrew bible
- sacred space
- new testament
- impurity
Stausberg/Zarathustra, 4. Ethics, Purity and Gender
Uploaded March, 2023
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- book chapter
- zarathustra and zoroastrianism
- ahura mazda
- mithra
- avesta
- sacred texts
- vidēvdāt
- rule-based devotion
- precepts
- ritual
- punishment
- purity
- gender
- law
- ethics
Geertz/Studying the Religious Mind, 16. Defilement and Moral Discourse
Uploaded May, 2023
The Application of Traditional Rules of Purity (Qinggui) in Contemporary Taiwanese Monasteries
Uploaded November, 2021
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- journal article
- buddhist studies review
- qinggui
- vinaya
- contemporary chinese buddhism
- taiwan
- monasticism
- purity
- socio-cultural norms
- fieldwork
Problematizing Ideas of Purity and Timelessness in the Conservation Narratives of Sacred Groves in Xishuangbanna, China
Uploaded September, 2021
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- nature and culture
- journal article
- religion and nature
- sacred groves
- traditional ecological knowledge
- china
- ethnic minorities
- dai
- identity
- narratives
- purity
- journal for the study of religion nature and culture
- tree veneration
The man-like woman and the menstruating man: gendered discourses of purity and piety in male-authored Sufi writings
Uploaded September, 2023
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- journal article
- body and religion
- islam
- sufism
- religion and gender
- purity
- menstruation
- hadith
- asceticism
- sufi literature
- piety
- metaphor
- masculinization
- gender identity
MacKendrick/Evil, 2. Classification and Magical Thinking
Uploaded October, 2023
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- book chapter
- evil
- evil a critical primer
- classification
- theories of religion
- magical thinking
Mind the Beard! Deference, Purity and Islamization of Everyday Life as Micro-factors in a Salafi Cultural Epidemiology
Uploaded May, 2022
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- journal article
- comparative islamic studies
- islam
- salafism
- psychology
- cognitive processes
- islamization
- cultural diffusion
- contagion
- psychology of religion
- emotions
- affect
- metaphor
- cultural setting
- meme
- socialization
- ritualization
- categorization
- belonging
- social formation
- conformity
- purity
The Development of Purification and Insight
Uploaded June, 2022
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- journal article
- buddhist studies review
- purity
- insight
Odors of Sanctity: Distinctions of the Holy in Early Christianity and Islam
Uploaded May, 2022
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- journal article
- comparative islamic studies
- islam
- early christians
- sensory experience
- sensory faculties
- body
- smell
- olfactory sensations
- sexuality
- purity
- salvation
- christianity
- ascetisicm

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