Title Ritual and religion in the making of humanity / Roy A. Rappaport

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999 Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description xxiii, 535 pages ; 23 cm Series Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110 Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110 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 Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-518) and index Notes English Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology no:110 Subject Ritual. Religion. Ceremonial Behavior. Religion. LC no. 98024494 ISBN 0521228735 9780521228732 0521296900 9780521296908

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