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Author Rappaport, Roy A., author

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