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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; 110 | Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropologyPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University, [1999]Description: 535 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521228732 .
Subject(s): Summary: 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
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Includes index

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

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