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Bringing Ritual to Mind

Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms [Paperback]

by E.Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley

    • Authors

      E.Thomas Lawson +1

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Cambridge University Press

    • Published

      August 2002

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      Product Description

      Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the cognitive and psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. Participants must recall their rituals well enough to ensure a sense of continuity across performances, and those rituals must motivate them to transmit and re-perform them. Most religious rituals the world over exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation (but not both) to enhance their recollection (the availability of literacy has little impact on this). But why do some rituals exploit the first of these variables while others exploit the second? McCauley and Lawson advance the ritual form hypothesis, arguing that participants' cognitive representations of ritual form explain why. Reviewing evidence from cognitive, developmental and social psychology and from cultural anthropology and the history of religions, they utilize dynamical systems tools to explain the recurrent evolutionary trajectories religions exhibit.

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      • Authors

        E.Thomas Lawson +1

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Cambridge University Press

      • Published

        August 2002

      • Weight

        346g

      • Page Count

        252

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 14 mm

      • ISBN

        9780521016292

      • ISBN-10

        0521016290

      • Eden Code

        1151372

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      • ISBN: 9780521016292

      • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

      • Release Date: August 2002

      • Weight: 346g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 14 mm

      • Eden Code: 1151372

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