7 ratings — Welcome back. 6,611 ratings — Read 270 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. published 1951, avg rating 4.24 — This is the implacable logic of the sacred, which myths dissimulate less and less as humans become increasingly self-aware. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. 14 ratings — Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. 1,134 ratings — Rituals had slowly educated them; from then on, humans had to do without. 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There's a problem loading this menu right now. 67 ratings — Error rating book. 0 ratings — 635 ratings — published 1949, avg rating 3.77 — published 2004, avg rating 4.57 — James S. Bielo recounts a similarly memorable experience in his book, Anthropology of Religion: The Basics, and notes that his early experiments with fieldwork as an undergraduate student “planted deeply in [him] a sense of wanting to discover religious worlds, and a commitment that anthropology was a fantastic way to do that” (x). The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? What I call after Freud the founding murder, in other words, the immolation of a sacrificial victim that is both guilty of disorder and able to restore order, is constantly re-enacted in the rituals at the origin of our institutions. 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