The sea can wash away all evils modern marine pollution and the ancient Cathartic Ocean /
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
c2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 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".