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Ritual and religion in the making of humanity / Roy A. Rappaport.

By: Series: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110Publication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: xxiii, 535 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0521228735 (hb)
  • 0521296900 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291.38 RAP
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.