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[167]-176) and index. 327 $aThe 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". 330 $aKimberley Patton examines the environmental crises facing the world's oceans from the perspective of religious history. Much as the ancient Greeks believed, and Euripides wrote, that "the sea can wash away all evils," a wide range of cultures have sacralized the sea, trusting in its power to wash away what is dangerous, dirty, and morally contaminating. The sea makes life on land possible by keeping it "pure."Patton sets out to learn whether the treatment of the world's oceans by industrialized nations arises from the same faith in their infinite and regenerative qualities. Indeed, the sea's natural characteristics, such as its vast size and depth, chronic motion and chaos, seeming biotic inexhaustibility, and unique composition of powerful purifiers-salt and water-support a view of the sea as a "no place" capable of swallowing limitless amounts of waste. And despite evidence to the contrary, the idea that the oceans could be harmed by wasteful and reckless practices has been slow to take hold. Patton believes that environmental scientists and ecological advocates ignore this relationship at great cost. She bases her argument on three influential stories: Euripides' tragedy Iphigenia in Tauris; an Inuit myth about the wild and angry sea spirit Sedna who lives on the ocean floor with hair dirtied by human transgression; and a disturbing medieval Hindu tale of a lethal underwater mare. She also studies narratives in which the sea spits back its contents-sins, corpses, evidence of guilt long sequestered-suggesting that there are limits to the ocean's vast, salty heart. In these stories, the sea is either an agent of destruction or a giver of life, yet it is also treated as a passive receptacle. Combining a history of this ambivalence toward the world's oceans with a serious scientific analysis of modern marine pollution, Patton writes a compelling, cross-disciplinary study that couldn't be more urgent or timely. 606 $aWater$xReligious aspects 606 $aOcean$xReligious aspects 606 $aOcean 606 $aMarine pollution 606 $aPurity, Ritual 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWater$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aOcean$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aOcean. 615 0$aMarine pollution. 615 0$aPurity, Ritual. 676 $a201/.77 700 $aPatton$b Kimberley C$g(Kimberley Christine),$f1958-$0891254 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454514603321 996 $aThe sea can wash away all evils$92472715 997 $aUNINA LEADER 03282nam 22006612 450 001 9910783310403321 005 20151005020623.0 010 $a1-107-11796-8 010 $a0-511-06646-5 010 $a1-280-41762-5 010 $a9786610417629 010 $a1-139-14617-3 010 $a0-511-17319-9 010 $a0-511-06015-7 010 $a0-511-31097-8 010 $a0-511-49026-7 010 $a0-511-06859-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000030826 035 $a(EBL)517239 035 $a(OCoLC)609863843 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000142984 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11142275 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142984 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10111821 035 $a(PQKB)10798745 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511490262 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC517239 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000030826 100 $a20090227d2000|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEcology and historical materialism /$fJonathan Hughes$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (x, 219 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in Marxism and social theory 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-66789-5 311 $a0-521-66090-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 208-215) and index. 327 $a1. 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