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Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

By Roy A. Rappaport

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521228735, 0521296900, 9780521228732, 9780521296908
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2373923 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Pages
564\559
Time added
2016-04-14 17:31:52

Description

This book argues that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches, it is a comprehensive analysis of religion’s evolutionary significance, and its inextricable interdependence with language. It is also a detailed study of religion’s main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions that we take to be religious and therefore central in the making of humanity’s adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from a range of disciplines.

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