The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean (Hardcover)

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Dutch Bread-Man: Ocean as Divinity and Scapegoat
2. The Crisis of Modern Marine Pollution
3. The Purifying Sea in the Religious Imagination: Supernatural Aspects of Natural Elements
4. "The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils": Ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea
5. "The Great Woman Down There": Sedna and Ritual Pollution in Inuit Seascapes
6. "O Ocean, I Ask You To Be Merciful": The Hindu Submarine Mare-Fire
7. "Here End the Works of the Sea, the Works of Love"
Notes
Bibliography
Index