Overview
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
- | Publication Date: Mar 25, 1999
- | Number of Pages: 564 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521296900
- | ISBN-13: 9780521296908
