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Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

by Roy A. Rappaport

  • Paperback
  • 557 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 3.4 cm

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For readers interested in religion and anthropology

Explains the link between religion, ritual, and culture

You will gain insights into humanity's spiritual journey

Explore how religion and ritual shape humanity's evolution.

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Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been 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. At the same time he assembles the fullest study yet of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions which we take to be religious and has been central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from anthropology, history, philosophy, comparative religion, and elsewhere.
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  • Author

    Roy A. Rappaport

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    March 1999

  • Weight

    750g

  • Page Count

    557

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 3.4 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521296908

  • ISBN-10

    0521296900

  • Eden Code

    1151438

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