Ritual and religion in the making of humanity / Roy A. Rappaport.
1999
203.8 R221r 1999
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Title
Ritual and religion in the making of humanity / Roy A. Rappaport.
Author
ISBN
0521228735 (hb)
9780521228732 (hb)
0521296900 (pbk.)
9780521296908 (pbk.)
9780521228732 (hb)
0521296900 (pbk.)
9780521296908 (pbk.)
Imprint
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Language
English
Description
xxiii, 535 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
203.8 R221r 1999
System Control No.
(OCoLC)39223597
(OCoLC)39223597
(OCoLC)39223597
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 499-518) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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
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
Series
Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110.
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