Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

Roy A. Rappaport

Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
24 May 1999
Pages
564
ISBN
9780521228732

Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

Roy A. Rappaport

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.

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