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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The symbolic distinction between purity and pollution was prevalent in Ancient Greece, not least among the Orphics. As a religious reform movement of the Axial Age, they authored a discourse which was polemically directed against the dom... see more

English Abstract: This brief article reviews two main contributions by the French sociologist Louis Dumont, his essay “World Renunciation in Indian Religions” and his major work on the Indian caste system, Homo Hierarchicus. Some of the critique of Dumont... see more

In Hittite and Hurrian purification rites the use of birds is frequent; both in an Anatolian and in a Near Eastern and Eastern Miditerranean context. There is a special group of rituals, the so-called bird rituals; these rituals concern the removal of evi... see more

The article introduces notions of ritual impurity in Sinhalese culture and examines why conditions of impurity specially influence certain lower local gods and demons. The Sinhalese pantheon is based on a principle of hierarchy, with an opposition of high... see more

Tahara, the Islamic regulations of purity are discussed as they appear in the Islamic scriptures, and as they are practised in Morocco during visits to the public baths, hammam. The formal and local traditions are not considered as opposites, but they are... see more
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This paper deals with the relation between the pure and the impure in the late Avestan text Vendidad. It is shown how, in this religion, there is an almost exact correlation between the cosmic dualism between the good creation of Ahura Mazda and the evil ... see more

“Purity, Ritual and Society According to Mary Douglas: A problematization inspired by some recent post-structuralist critiques”. Mary Douglas’ two pioneering books, Purity and Danger and Natural Symbols, were together a major break-through in the study of... see more

English Abstract: This brief article reviews two main contributions by the French sociologist Louis Dumont, his essay “World Renunciation in Indian Religions” and his major work on the Indian caste system, Homo Hierarchicus. Some of the critique of Dumont... see more

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The symbolic distinction between purity and pollution was prevalent in Ancient Greece, not least among the Orphics. As a religious reform movement of the Axial Age, they authored a discourse which was polemically directed against the dom... see more

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