Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification by Bruce Lincoln

Discourse and the Construction of Society: Comparative Studies of Myth, Ritual, and Classification

Bruce Lincoln

256 pages first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction religion sociology challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In this bold theoretical work, Bruce Lincoln explores the ways in which myth, ritual, and classification hold human societies together--and how, in times of crisis, they can be used to take a society apart and reconstruct it. Without overlooking t...

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