Ecstasy, ritual and alternate reality : religion in a pluralistic world /

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Anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman offers a "unified field theory" of religion as human behavior. She examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goodman, Felicitas D.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1988.
Subjects:
Religion.
Rites and ceremonies.
Ethnology > Religious aspects.
Ethnopsychology > Religious aspects.
Religion
Rites et cérémonies.
Ethnologie > Aspect religieux.
Ethnopsychologie > Aspect religieux.
religion (discipline)
RELIGION > General.
Rites and ceremonies
Ethnology > Religious aspects
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The religious: Can it be defined?
  • Human evolution and the origin and evolution of religious behavior
  • The independent variable: interaction with the habitat
  • Dependent variables
  • The hunter-gatherers
  • The horticulturalists
  • The agriculturalists
  • Thenomadic pastoralists
  • The city dwellers.

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