Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms - Tapa blanda

McCauley, Robert N.

 
9780521016292: Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms
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ISBN 10: 0521016290 ISBN 13: 9780521016292
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Sinopsis

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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ROBERT N. MCCAULEY is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Emory College Center for Teaching and Curriculum, Emory University.

E. THOMAS LAWSON is Professor of Comparative Religion at Western Michigan University and executive editor of the Journal of Cognition and Culture.

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Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0521016290
ISBN 13 
9780521016292
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Número de páginas
252
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