By Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J. Puett, and Bennett Simon Published by Oxford University Press, 2008. This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual–like play–creates “as … Continue reading Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity