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Ritual Impurity

Ritual Impurity is a religiously defined state of spiritual uncleanness, within the broader category of ritual conditions, that temporarily restricts an individual’s participation in sacred practices or access to holy spaces until purification rites are performed.

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Ritual Uncleanness

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Publications

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Shellfish, Gender, and Status on the Northwest Coast: Reconciling Archeological, Ethnographic, and Ethnohistorical Records of the Tlingit

Madonna L. Moss · American Anthropologist · 1993 · 179 citations

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Hlonipha and the Ambiguous Woman

Robert K. Herbert · 1990 · 165 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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Notions of Gentile Impurity in Ancient Judaism

Jonathan Klawans · AJS Review The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies · 1995 · 82 citations

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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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Authors

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  1. JK
    Jonathan Klawans

    Boston University, United States

    4 publications · 206 citations

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  2. VN
    Vered Noam

    Tel Aviv University, Israel

    2 publications · 38 citations

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  3. CH
    Christine Hayes

    Yale University, United States

    2 publications · 126 citations

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  4. RK
    Robert K. Herbert

    Binghamton University, United States

    1 publications · 165 citations

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  5. LB
    Lenka Budilová

    Charles University, Czechia

    1 publications · 10 citations

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Institutions

23

  1. Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Jerusalem, Israel

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    77 citations

  2. McMaster University

    Hamilton, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    53 citations

  3. Boston University

    Boston, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    67 citations

  4. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    139 citations

  5. Tel Aviv University

    Tel Aviv, Israel

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    38 citations

  6. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    59 citations

  7. Medical Research Council

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  8. Women's Health Research Institute

    Vancouver, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

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  2. Vetus Testamentum

    2 publications · 76 citations

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  3. Harvard Theological Review

    HTR · 2 publications · 115 citations

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  4. Journal of ancient Judaism

    JAJ · 2 publications · 38 citations

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  5. Ethnos

    1 publications · 11 citations

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