Rappaport, Roy A.
Ritual and religion in the making of humanity / Roy A. Rappaport. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999. - 535 p. : 23 cm. - Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110 . - Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110. .
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. The ritual form -- 3. Self-referential messages -- 4. Enactments of meaning -- 5. Word and act, form and substance -- 6. Time, eternity 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 -- 12. Religion in adaptation -- 13. 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. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches to the study of humankind, he mounts a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, seeing it as co-extensive with the invention of language and hence of culture as we know it."--BOOK JACKET.
English.
0521228735 (cased) �50.00 0521296900 (pbk.) �17.95
98024494
GB98-V7768
Ritual.
Religion.
201.3 / RAR
Ritual and religion in the making of humanity / Roy A. Rappaport. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999. - 535 p. : 23 cm. - Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110 . - Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110. .
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. The ritual form -- 3. Self-referential messages -- 4. Enactments of meaning -- 5. Word and act, form and substance -- 6. Time, eternity 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 -- 12. Religion in adaptation -- 13. 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. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches to the study of humankind, he mounts a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, seeing it as co-extensive with the invention of language and hence of culture as we know it."--BOOK JACKET.
English.
0521228735 (cased) �50.00 0521296900 (pbk.) �17.95
98024494
GB98-V7768
Ritual.
Religion.
201.3 / RAR