Archetypal Actions of Ritual, The Islam in which a young man

in which a young man is turned into a donkey by magic

But the lack of face-to-face interaction can also impede trust

Art and Ideas

Ilana Edelstein

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Archetypal Actions of Ritual, The Islam in which a young manReligious rituals can provoke a deeply ambigious reaction in those who practise them. What happens in religious traditions when the nature of the ritual is questioned, but the practice of performing rituals is not itself abandoned? This book draws on the authors' observations of such reactions among Jains in western India, and asks why they can tell us about ritual as a universal mode of human action. Most anthropologists have assumed that ritual is a