1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009290010403321

Autore

D'Andria, Raffaele <1951- ; , architetto>

Titolo

Tra il taglio e le onde : Museo Archeologico di Paestum : la piazza / Raffaele D'Andria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paestum : MMMAC, c1999

Descrizione fisica

109 p. : ill. ; 31 cm.

Collana

Hydria ; 3

Locazione

FARBC

Collocazione

ARCH C 858

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455047003321

Autore

Rappaport Roy A.

Titolo

Ritual and religion in the making of humanity / / Roy A. Rappaport [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999

ISBN

0-511-05231-6

0-511-81468-2

0-511-15173-X

0-511-01603-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 535 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology ; ; 110

Disciplina

291.3/8

Soggetti

Ritual

Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).



Nota di contenuto

Foreword / Keith Hart -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The ritual form -- 3. Self-referential messages -- 4. Enactments of meaning -- 5. Word and act, form and substance -- 6. Time 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 -- 13. Religion in adaptation -- 14. The breaking of the Holy and its salvation.

Sommario/riassunto

Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been 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. At the same time he assembles the fullest study yet of religion's main component, ritual, which constructs the conceptions which we take to be religious and has been central in the making of humanity's adaptation. The text amounts to a manual for effective ritual, illustrated by examples drawn from anthropology, history, philosophy, comparative religion, and elsewhere.