Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why by Davis-Floyd, Robbie

Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781800735286)

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Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why by Davis-Floyd, Robbie

Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why

$145.00
Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why by Davis-Floyd, Robbie

Ritual: What It Is, How It Works, and Why

$145.00
Format: Hardcover
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Designed for both academic and lay audiences, this book identifies the characteristics of ritual and, via multiple examples, details how ritual works on the human body and brain to produce its often profound effects. These include enhancing courage, effecting healing, and generating group cohesion by enacting cultural-or individual-beliefs and values. It also shows what happens when ritual fails.



Author: Robbie Davis-Floyd, Charles D. Laughlin
ISBN-10: 1800735286
ISBN-13: 9781800735286
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2022
Pages: 322
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

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Choice 05/01/2023
By Robbie Davis-Floyd
By Robbie Davis-Floyd
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Charles D. Laughlin is Emeritus Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His many books include Communing with the Gods: Consciousness, Culture and the Dreaming Brain (Daily Grail, 2011), which explores the anthropology of dreaming and recounts his experiences as a practitioner of Tibetan dream yoga.

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