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Canon/Canonization
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Canonization as a Process 1. The concept of canonization (from Heb.,
qana, ‘staff,’ ‘[measuring] reed,’ adopted as a loan word in Greek) describes the process in which a set of symbols, texts, actions, or artifacts is fixed as authoritative and normative. The collection, ordering, and commitment to canonical writing of self-evident daily relationships, cultic practices, styles of piety, and moral conceptions serves to reinforce tradition. It is a process of crystallization that can go on for centuries, as …
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The Brill Dictionary of Religion
Purity
(1,738 words)
General 1. The didactic distinction between purity and impurity, and the symbols and rituals that realize it, belong to the basic conditions of every religion. Notions of purity articulate a symbolically ordered world of flourishing religious life. The longing for purity is intimately paired with the yearning for salvation. The conception of ‘impure,’ then, or ‘unclean,’ identifies everything that this symbolical cosmos threatens or calls into question. The condition of purity is either very frag…
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The Brill Dictionary of Religion
