On the Purification of Women
P. Rieder
Palgrave USA, 2011
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This book is a social history of the ritual and custom of churching, a liturgical rite of purification after childbirth performed on a woman's first visit to church after giving birth. The book describes the development of the rite from its original meaning as a response to blood pollution to its redefinition as a rite that honoured marriage.
- ISBN-13
- 9781403969699
- ISBN-10
- 1403969698
- Publisher
- Palgrave USA
- Year
- 2011
- Publication date
- 2011-06-16
- Pages
- 257
- Dimensions
- 223x139x24
- Weight
- 508