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Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

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Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity - Seligman, Adam B, and Weller, Robert P, and Michael J
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This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between imagined worlds is central to the human capacity for empathy. Ritual, they claim, defines the boundaries of these imagined worlds, ...

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Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity 2014, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780199714575

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Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195336016

Trade paperback

Ritual and It's Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195336009

Hardcover