A descriptive analysis of the concepts "purity" and "holiness" within the Qumran community and Hare Krishna Movement
In order to compare the Qumran community and the Hare Krishna Movement as purity cults, the concepts "purity" and "holiness" are examined within their respective religious contexts. Israelite notions of purity and holiness within mainstream Judaism, and their corruption during Se...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2007
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Journal for semitics
Year: 2007, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 392-422 |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
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| Summary: | In order to compare the Qumran community and the Hare Krishna Movement as purity cults, the concepts "purity" and "holiness" are examined within their respective religious contexts. Israelite notions of purity and holiness within mainstream Judaism, and their corruption during Second Temple Judaism, set the scene for the schism between the Temple cult and the Qumran community on the basis of purity and holiness issues, and their subsequent extension, intensification and homogenization. Vaishnavism is placed in context within Vedic theology and, within Vedanta, Gaudiya Vaishnavism is described as a dvaitist (dualistic) purity cult. The leaders of both cults were conservative and backward-looking, with pretensions to divinity, advocating stringent processes of purification as the path to liberation from the worldly realm., |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for semitics
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| Persistent identifiers: | HDL: 10520/EJC101056 |