영문목차
Foreword/Keith Hart=xiv
Preface=xxi
1. Introduction=1
The evolution of humanity=3
Adaptation=5
The symbol=7
The great inversion=9
The lie=11
Alternative=17
2. The ritual form=23
Ritual defined=24
The logical entailments of the ritual form=26
Ritual and formal cause=27
Form and substance in ritual=29
The first feature of ritual: encoding by other than performers=32
The second feature: formality=33
The third feature: invariance (more or less)=36
The fourth feature: performance (ritual and other performance forms)=37
The fifth feature: formality (vs. physical efficacy)=46
Ritual as communication=50
Self-referential and canonical messages=52
Symbols, indices, and the two streams of messages=54
Appendix=58
3. Self-referential messages=69
On levels of meaning=70
Variation and indexicality in the Maring ritual cycle=74
Index, icon and number in the Maring ritual cycle=77
Natural indices in the Maring cycle=80
Ordinal and cardinal messages=82
Quantification and the substantial representation of the incorporeal=84
The digital representation of analogic processes=86
The binary aspect of ritual occurrence=89
Ritual occurrence and the articulation of unlike systems=97
Ritual occurrence and buffering against disruption=101
4. Enactments of meaning=107
The physical and the meaningful=108
Speech acts=113
The special relationship between rituals and performativeness=115
Ritual's first fundamental office=117
Acceptance, belief, and conformity=119
Performativeness, metaperformativeness, and the establishment of convention=124
Ritual and daily practice in the establishment of convention=126
The morality intrinsic to ritual's structure=132
Ritual and myth, and drama=134
Ritual as the basic social act=137
5. Word and act, form and substance=139
Substantiating the non-material=141
Special and mundane objects=144
Acts and agents=145
Predication and metaphor=147
Ritual words=151
The reunion of form and substance=152
The union of form and substance as creation=155
Ritual, creation and the naturalization of convention=164
6. Time and liturgical order=169
The dimensions of liturgical orders=170
St. Augustine, St. Emile, time and the categories=170
Temporal experience and public order=175
Succession, division, period and interval=177
Temporal principles=181
The grounds of recurrence=188
Schedules and societies=190
The temporal organization of activities=193
Regularity, length and frequency=196
Sequence and space=209
7. Intervals, eternity, and communitas=216
Time out of time=216
Tempo and consciousness=220
Tempo, temporal regions and time out of time=222
Frequency and bonding strength=225
Coordination, communitas, and neurophysiology=226
Eternity=230
Myth and history=233
The innumerable versus the eternal=234
8. Simultaneity and hierarchy=236
The Yu Min Rumbim=237
Language and liturgy=251
Analysis vs. performance=253
Ritual representations and hyperreality=257
Mending the world=262
The hierarchical dimension of liturgical orders=263
9. The idea of the sacred=277
Sanctity defined=277
Sanctity as a property of discourse=281
The ground of sanctity=283
Axioms and Ultimate Sacred Postulates=287
Sanctity, heuristic rules, and the basic dogma=290
Sanctity, unquestionableness, and the truth of things=293
Divinity, truth, and order=297
The truths of sanctity and deutero-truth=304
10. Sanctification=313
Sanctified expressions=317
Falsehood, alienation, sanctity and adaptation=319
Major variations in sanctification=324
Sanctity, community, and communication=326
The sacred, the sanctified, and comparative invariance=328
11. Truth and order=344
Logos=346
Logoi=353
12. The numinous, the Holy, and the divine=371
Religious experience and the numinous in William James, Rudolph Otto, and Emile Durkheim=374
Order, disorder, and transcendence=381
Grace=382
Grace and art=384
Ritual learning=388
Meaning and meaningfulness again=391
Belief=395
The notion of the divine=396
Illusion and truth=399
The foundation of humanity=404
13. Religion in adaptation=406
Adaptation defined again=408
Adaptation as the maintenance of truth=410
Self-regulation=411
Religious conceptions in human adaptation=414
The structure of adaptive processes=419
The structural requirements of adaptiveness=422
Hierarchical organization of directive, value, and sanctity=425
Sanctity, vacuity, mystery, and adaptiveness=427
The Cybernetics of the Holy=429
14. The breaking of the Holy and its salvation=438
The natural and the unnatural=438
Sanctity and specificity=440
Oversanctification, idolatry, and maladaptation=441
Adaptive truth and falsity=443
Idolatry and writing=444
Sanctity, power, and lies of oppression=446
Breaking the holy and diabolical lies=447
Inversion in the order of knowledge=449
Humanity's fundamental contradiction=451
Dissonance between law and meaning=453
Post-modern science and natural religion=456
Notes=462
References=499
Index=519