The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship by James Laidlaw, Caroline Humphrey

The Archetypal Actions of Ritual: A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship

James Laidlaw, Caroline Humphrey

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Humphrey and Laidlaw present a new and radical general theory of ritual by drawing on an ethnographically rich account of the ritual worship of the Jains of western India. Ritual, they argue, is not a logically separate type of activity, but rathe...

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