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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.

Purity, Ritual. --- Ceremonial purity --- Clean and unclean --- Cleanliness, Ritual --- Purity, Ceremonial --- Ritual purity --- Rites and ceremonies --- Purity, ritual. --- Religion / reference. --- Chinese daoism. --- Religion. --- Pureté rituelle

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While comparative studies on purity and impurity presented in the last decades have mostly concentrated on the ancient world or on modern developments, this volume focusses the hitherto comparatively neglected period between circa 300 and 1600 c. E. The collection is innovative because it not only combines papers on both European and Asian cultures but also considers a wide variety of religions and confessions. The articles are written by leading experts in the field and are presented in six systematic sections. This analytical categorization facilitates understanding the functional spectrum that the binomial purity and impurity could cover in past societies. The volume thus presents an in-depth comparative analysis of a category of paramount importance for interfaith relations and processes of transfer.

Purity, Ritual. --- Religion --- History of religion

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This book sheds new light on the relationship between religion and state in early modern Japan, and demonstrates the growing awareness of Shinto in both the political and the intellectual elite of Tokugawa Japan, even though Buddhism remained the privileged means of stately religious control. The first part analyses how the Tokugawa government aimed to control the populace via Buddhism and at the same time submitted Buddhism to the sacralization of the Tokugawa dynasty. The second part focuses on the religious protests throughout the entire period, with chapters on the suppression of Christians, heterodox Buddhist sects, and unwanted folk practitioners. The third part tackles the question of why early Tokugawa Confucianism was particularly interested in 'Shinto' as an alternative to Buddhism and what 'Shinto' actually meant from a Confucian stance. The final part of the book explores attempts to curtail the institutional power of Buddhism by reforming Shinto shrines, an important step in the so called ?Shintoization of shrines? including the development of a self-contained Shinto clergy.

Religion and state --- Religion and state. --- Shinto and state --- Shinto and state. --- Shinto --- Shinto. --- History --- History. --- Japan. --- J1910.60 --- J1917.70 --- State and Shinto --- State, The --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- history -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) --- Japan: Religion -- Shintō -- relations -- State, state Shintō