Protecting Earth? Rappaport's Vision of Rituals as Environmental Practices

• Main Author: Hornborg, Anne-Christine
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Kamla-Raj Enterprises 2008
• Subjects: History of Religions; Technology as practice; Ritual and Modernity; the Characteristics of Ritual; Protecting places; Breton Island
• Online Access: https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/2117131

This article discusses the characteristics of ritual practices, according to Roy Rappaport-s general theory of ritual. I start by discussing technology as a kind of ritual product of science and then briefly present Rappaport-s ritual theory as an aid in understanding how the Mi-kmaq Indians of Cape...