Purification is the process of rendering something pure, i.e. clean of foreign elements and/or pollution, and may refer to:

Religion

Ritual purification Ritual purification is the ritual prescribed by a religion by which a person is considered to be free of ''uncleanliness'', especially prior to the worship of a deity, and ritual purity is a state of ritual cleanliness. Ritual purification may ...

, the religious activity to remove uncleanliness * Purification after death *

Purification of the Virgin The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple (or ''in the temple'') is an early episode in the life of Jesus Christ, describing his presentation at the Temple in Jerusalem, that is celebrated by many churches 40 days after Christmas on Candlemas, o ...

, a Christian liturgical feast *

Purification Rundown The Purification Rundown, also known as the Purif or the Hubbard Method, is a detoxification program which involves heat exposure for up to 5 hours a day and can exceed 4 weeks in length. It was developed by Scientology's founder L. Ron Hubbard a ...

, in Scientology

Other uses

* ''Purification'' (album), a 2002 Crimson Thorn album * ''Purification'' (film), a 2012 film * Purification of quantum state in quantum mechanics, especially quantum information * Purification theorem in game theory and economics, a Nash equilibrium consisting of randomly mixed strategies * Water purification **

Organisms used in water purification Most organisms involved in water purification originate from the waste, wastewater or water stream itself or arrive as resting spore of some form from the atmosphere. In a very few cases, mostly associated with constructed wetlands, specific orga ...

* List of purification methods in chemistry

Religion

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