Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity

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.

Author: Roy a. Rappaport
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/25/1999
Pages: 564
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d
ISBN: 9780521228732

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