Felicitas D. Goodman

Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality

Religion in a Pluralistic World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this cross-disciplinary exploration of comparative religion, Felicitas Goodmand offers a unified field theory of religion as human behavior. She examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: März 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 24mm x 16mm x 2mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780253207265
• ISBN-10: 0253207266
• Artikelnr.: 22360127

Autorenporträt

Felicitas D. Goodman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Theory
Chapter 1. The Religious: Can It Be Defined?
Chapter 2. Human Evolution and the Origins and Evolution of Religious
Behavior
Chapter 3. The Independent Variable: Interaction with the Habitat
Chapter 4. Dependent Variables
Ritual Behavior
The Religious Trance
The Alternate Reality
Good Fortune, Misfortune, and the Rituals of Divination
Ethics and Its Relation to Religious Behavior
The Semantics of "Religion"
Part Two: Ethnography
Chapter 5. The Hunter-Gatherers
Chapter 6. The Horticulturalists
Chapter 7. The Agriculturalists
Chapter 8. The Nomadic Pastoralists
Chapter 9. The City Dwellers
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index