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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 69–80.
Published: 01 January 2016
... beings and that our being so is manifested in the widespread belief, found across cultures and historical epochs, that taking human life contaminates the killer and may pose a threat to the entire community, unless rituals of purification are performed to counteract it. Examples from the Hebrew Bible...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 197–207.
Published: 01 April 2009
... or ritual “celibacy...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 419–489.
Published: 01 August 2014
.... After going through a number of purification rituals, the old men of rituals, of purification anumber through going After...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 86–105.
Published: 01 January 2012
... meditations on the defensive function of rituals and symbols. More practically, the lecture was intended, by its successful drafting and delivery before an audience of inmates, doctors, and professional colleagues, to prove Warburg's sanity and secure his release. Through an investigation of the outbreak...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 January 2021
... the violent demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque in Ayodhya by militant Hindus, but even at that time she found no trace of such belligerence in the Hindustani musical world. Years later, while conducting research on the Shinto music rituals of her own culture, she discovered a little-known imperial...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 172–192.
Published: 01 January 2014
... of purification, tion...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 441–449.
Published: 01 August 2011
... Since of purification. out of a rituals violent them, acting to order some had actions their how and justified was behavior their believed they why showing approach, anthropological an took I lence, vio inhuman in erupting force demonic some by possessed as people...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 January 2024
..., with regard to ritual and gender‐based religious practices in the Christian West, and with respect to similarities that might be claimed between elements of Christian and non‐Christian cultures. Her thoughts about morphology, materiality, and gender extend beyond medieval Europe to the world at large. Her...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 440–467.
Published: 01 September 2017
... Israel (in the State of Israel) and Kulanu (in the UnitedStates). the (in Kulanu and ofState Israel) the (in Israel Shavei as such organizations ofproselyte support the with Judaism to converted have individuals and intensively,some groups and rituals and practices Jewish...
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Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (2): 261–278.
Published: 01 April 2006
... be instead barbaric seem may corpse) enemy’s the of mutilation ritual the instance, (for first had to perform elaborate apotropaicrituals. after the great slaughter and return to business as usual, whereas ancient warriors home go soldiers modern most how notes Freud turbulence...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 66–142.
Published: 01 January 2022
... and Hugh would have had in mind the passage following, from Pseudo-Dionysius's The Mystical Theology : It is not for nothing that the blessed Moses is commanded to submit first to purification and then to depart from those who have not undergone this. When every purification is complete, he hears...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 56–89.
Published: 01 January 2018
... and institutions the while versal, uni presumably is morality The communities. ofreligious aspects institutional and practices ritual the occlude to and teachings ethical and sentiments moral literature. notby and religion doneby be to is we hope which later, and or sooner...