In this article I analyze Van Gennep’s understanding of purity, impurity, and purification and its relationship with ancient Christian texts discussing these subjects. Through this comparison, I show how modern and ancient theories of ritual can illuminate each other, and more specifically, how purification was a problematic and ambivalent concept for both ancient Christian writers and for Van Gennep, making it a fruitful one for investigating the thought of both.

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《成年礼》和早期基督教文本中净化的矛盾心理和转变的挑战

在这篇文章中，我分析了 Van Gennep 对纯洁、不纯洁和纯洁的理解，以及它与讨论这些主题的古代基督教文本的关系。通过这种比较，我展示了现代和古代仪式理论如何相互启发，更具体地说，净化是如何对古代基督教作家和范热内普来说都是一个有问题和矛盾的概念，使其成为研究宗教思想的富有成效的一个两个都。