Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

Klappentext A comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance and a study of its main component, ritual. Zusammenfassung This book argues that religion can and must be reconciled with science. It is both a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance and a detailed study of religion's main component! ritual! which constructs the conceptions which we take to be religious and therefore central in the making of humanity's adaptation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The ritual form; 3. Self-referential messages; 4. Enactments of meaning; 5. Word and act, form and substance; 6. Time, eternity 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; 12. Religion in adaptation; 13. The breaking of the holy and its salvation.

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• Authors: Roy A. Rappaport, Rappaport Roy a.
• Assisted by: Meyer Fortes (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.1999
• EAN: 9780521296908
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29690-8
• No. of pages: 564
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Cambridge Studies in Social an; Cambridge Studies in Social an
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics