A few years ago, longer than I care to admit, Sarah Perry wrote up a thoughtful essay asking a simple question: What is Ritual? It made a bit of a splash at the time and managed to raise the hackles of friend of mine. His complaint: the answer she supplied was in fact to a very different question, namely: “How did ritual come to be?”
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