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Ritual Contamination

Ritual Contamination is a theoretical construct within the study of purification rituals that denotes the violation or transgression of prescribed ritual purity standards, thereby necessitating corrective ritual action to restore ontological or symbolic integrity.

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Purity of the sacred lotus, or escape from contamination in biological surfaces

Wilhelm Barthlott, Christoph Neinhuis · Planta · 1997 · 6.8K citations

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Ritual Pollution as an Integrator of Caste and Religion

Edward B. Harper · The Journal of Asian Studies · 1964 · 90 citations · Full text

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Ritual and Morality: The Ritual Purity System and Its Place in Judaism

Christine Hayes, Hyam Maccoby · The Jewish Quarterly Review · 2002 · 67 citations

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Defilement Penetrating the Body: A New Understanding of Contamination in Mark 7.15

Yair Furstenberg · New Testament Studies · 2008 · 41 citations

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‘I'm just going to wash you down’: sanitizing the vaginal examination

Mary Stewart · Journal of Advanced Nursing · 2005 · 33 citations · Full text

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Authors

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    Christoph Neinhuis

    Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

    1 publications · 6.8K citations

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    Mary Stewart

    Family Planning NSW, Australia

    1 publications · 33 citations

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    Wilhelm Barthlott

    University of Bonn, Germany

    1 publications · 6.8K citations

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    Hyam Maccoby

    Richmond Royal Hospital, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 67 citations

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    Edward B. Harper

    Haverford College, United States

    1 publications · 90 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Leeds

    Leeds, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    67 citations

  2. University of Bonn

    Bonn, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    13.6K citations

  3. Kingston University

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  4. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    41 citations

  5. University of the West of England

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

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  1. Journal of Advanced Nursing

    JAN · 1 publications · 33 citations

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  3. New Testament Studies

    1 publications · 41 citations

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  4. Planta

    1 publications · 6.8K citations

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  5. Islamic Law and Society

    1 publications · 25 citations

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