TY - BOOK ID - 15923788 TI - Discourses of purity in transcultural perspective (300-1600) AU - Bley, Matthias AU - Jaspert, Nikolas. AU - Köck, Stefan PY - 2015 SN - 9004289747 9004289755 9789004289758 9789004289741 PB - Boston : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Purity, Ritual. KW - Ceremonial purity KW - Clean and unclean KW - Cleanliness, Ritual KW - Purity, Ceremonial KW - Ritual purity KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Purity, ritual. KW - Religion / reference. KW - Chinese daoism. KW - Religion. KW - Pureté rituelle UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:15923788 AB - This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus processes of religious demarcation and transfer. ER -