Embracing the lash: pain and ritual as spiritual tools

Whilst the use of flagellation for the purposes of purification, punishment or redemptive salvific activity has long been accepted in Christianity, its use in newly emergent religions such as Wicca, where the religious use of pain cannot be sidelined as an historical aberration but must instead be u...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jo Pearson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Donner Institute 2011-01-01
Series:Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
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Online Access:https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67394