description: 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.
language: English
title: Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
titlecomplete: Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Series Number 110)
genres: Science, Anthropology, Religion, History, Spirituality, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 98
series: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology
publisher: Cambridge University Press