Purification Religious Transformations of Body and Mind

includes index and biblioraphy

Academic and cultural exchanges between Tenri University and Marburg University : Retrospect and Prospect ..................1 Purification of the Mind in the History of Religions: On the basis of the works of the Second Shinbashira Shozen Nakayama ..................13 The Religion circle of Impurity /Pollution and Purification ...........25 Purification and trnasformation in Comparative perspective ..................35 Matter out of Place as a Window into Purification ............49 Ignatius Spiritual Excercises under the Aspect of Purification .........57 Penance as a Ritual for Purification .................65 Negative theology as Purification of Language..................73 Mystical Purification of the mind : Meister Eckhart on Calmness ................83 A genealogy of Discourse on Self-Cultivation in Modern Japan ............93 Healing Rituals in Contemporary Japanese esoteric Buddhism as Acts of Individual and Collective Purification ..........107 Karma - Yoga as a Self -Purification through service for Others ..........119 Purification and Emotion .......127 Purification and Salvation ...........137 Fasting - Reflection on the History and the Contemporary renewal of a Christian Exercise...............143 From purifying to having been purified .........153