Purification And Atonement
Scope Note
Practices reflecting a sense of contamination or guilt; concept of ritual uncleanness; things and persons considered unclean or impure; purification rites (e.g., ritual ablutions and bathing); concepts of sin, salvation, and redemption; riddance of sin (e.g., confession, remission, atonement, penance, scapegoat); etc.
History Note
The term was changed from "Purification and Expiation" to "Purification and Atonement" in 2000.
- Broader Term
- 780 Religious Practices
- Related Terms
- 514 Elimination
- 515 Personal Hygiene
- 564 Castes
- 673 Wrongs
- 688 Religious Offenses
- 753 Theory Of Disease
- 764 Burial Practices And Funerals
- 833 Sexual Intercourse
- 841 Menstruation
- 844 Childbirth
- Use Fors
- Ablutions (ritual)
- Atonement
- Bathing (ritual)
- Confession (religious)
- Contamination (ritual)
- Forgiveness (religious)
- Guilt (religious)
- Penance
- Pollution (religious)
- Purification (religious)
- Purificatory rites (religious)
- Religious redemption (ideas about)
- Remission of sin (beliefs and practices)
- Renewal (spiritual)
- Repentance (religious)
- Rites (purification)
- Ritual ablutions
- Ritual impurity
- Ritual purification
- Salvation (religious ideas about)
- Scapegoats (religious, punishment of nonconformists)
- Sins (religious beliefs)
- Spiritual renewal
- Sweat baths (use in ritual purification)
- Sweat baths in ritual purification
- Identifier
- 783
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