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Ritual and religion in the making of humanity /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rappaport, Roy A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Colección:Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.