Ritual And Religion In The Making Of Humanity

Ritual And Religion In The Making Of Humanity Rappaport, Roy A Additional Author mixed material bibliography Cambridge University Press 1999 monographic 535 This book argues that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches, it is a comprehensive analysis of religion's evolutionary significance, and its inextricable interdependence with language. It is also a detailed study of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions that we take to be religious and therefore central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from a range of disciplines. Religion; Ritual UK521228735 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) 291.38 RAP Rit 5326 C2O library & collabtive (Fiction & Literature) 4000 RitualAndReligionInTheMakingOfHumanity.jpg 5201 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated