TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patton,Kimberley C.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - The sea can wash away all evils: modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean 
AV  - BL450 .P38 2007eb
U1  - 201/.77 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Water
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Ocean
KW  - Marine pollution
KW  - Purity, Ritual
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index; 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"; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10183544
ER  -