TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rappaport,Roy A.
TI  - Ritual and religion in the making of humanity
T2  - Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology
SN  - 0521296900
AV  - BL600 .R37 1999
U1  - 291.3/8 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press.
KW  - Ritual
KW  - Religion
KW  - Anthropology of religion
KW  - Ceremonial Behavior
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-518) and index; Foreword / Keith Hart -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The ritual form -- 3. Self-referential messages -- 4. Enactments of meaning -- 5. Word and act, form and substance -- 6. Time and liturgical order -- 7. Intervals, eternity, and communitas -- 8. Simultaneity and hierarchy -- 9. The idea of the sacred -- 10. Sanctification -- 11. Truth and order -- 12. The numinous, the Holy, and the divine -- 13. Religion in adaptation -- 14. The breaking of the Holy and its salvation
N2  - Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science
ER  -