Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110. Ritual and religion in the making of humanity
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0521228735
ISBN 13
9780521228732
Category
Publication Year
1999
Publisher
Subject
Ritual.; Religion.; Rituel.
Description
xxiii, 535 pages ; 23 cm.; 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.;
Biblio Notes
39223597
Number of Copies
1
