Rappaport, Roy A. creator text enk Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1999 monographic eng

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535 p. : 23 cm. "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. 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."--BOOK JACKET. Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. The ritual form -- 3. Self-referential messages -- 4. Enactments of meaning -- 5. Word and act, form and substance -- 6. Time, eternity 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 -- 12. Religion in adaptation -- 13. The breaking of the holy and its salvation. Roy A. Rappaport. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references. English. Ritual Religion 201.3 RAR 0521228735 (cased) 0521296900 (pbk.) 98024494 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam022/98024494.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam029/98024494.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam032/98024494.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam022/98024494.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam029/98024494.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam032/98024494.html BDS 981019 20170518153030.0 1779965 eng