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Lewis Mumford. the mechanical order of ritual may have been a benign alternative to a com- pulsion neurosis . By means of ritual , I suggest , early man first confronted and overcame his own strangeness , identified himself with cosmic ...
Lewis Mumford. the mechanical order of ritual may have been a benign alternative to a com- pulsion neurosis . By means of ritual , I suggest , early man first confronted and overcame his own strangeness , identified himself with cosmic ...
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... ritual has constantly borne within itself some of the very irrationality it existed to overcome . Susanne Langer , in her spirited exposition of symbolic ritual as an essential agent in human development , properly pointed out that the ...
... ritual has constantly borne within itself some of the very irrationality it existed to overcome . Susanne Langer , in her spirited exposition of symbolic ritual as an essential agent in human development , properly pointed out that the ...
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... ritual must have established order , preserved the past , and held the new - found world together . But to make ritual prevail , man paid a price : the tendency to overvalue the goods of the past , fearing to disturb them by further ...
... ritual must have established order , preserved the past , and held the new - found world together . But to make ritual prevail , man paid a price : the tendency to overvalue the goods of the past , fearing to disturb them by further ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
THE GIFT OF TONGUES | 72 |
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