Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean
by
Kimberley Christine Patton
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2006
Kimberley Patton examines the environmental crises facing the world's oceans from the perspective of religious history. Much as the ancient Greeks believed, and Euripides wrote, that "the sea can wash away all evils," a wide range of cultures have sacralized the sea, trusting in its power...