| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 535 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110
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Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-518) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ritual.
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Ritual. |
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Religion.
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Religion. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rappaport, Roy A. Ritual and religion in the making of humanity. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999 0521228735 (DLC) 98024494 (OCoLC)39223597 |
| ISBN |
0511016034 (electronic book) |
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9780511016035 (electronic book) |
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0511037074 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511037078 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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051115173X |
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9780511151736 |
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9780521228732 |
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0521228735 (Trade Cloth) |
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9780511814686 (electronic book) |
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0511814682 (electronic book) |
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0521296900 (paperback) |
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9780521296908 |
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