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Ritual and religion in the making of humanity /

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110Publication details: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. ©1999Description: xxiii, 535 pages ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521296900
  • 0521228735
  • 9780521228732
  • 9780521296908
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291.3/8 21
LOC classification:
  • BL600 .R37 1999
NLM classification:
  • BL 600 R37 1999
Contents:
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
Summary: 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
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Books Books SAIACS General Stacks Non-fiction 291.38 R221R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 035185

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

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

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