[PDF.33vq] Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms

Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms

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 | #1819359 in Books |  2002-09-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.51 x5.98l,.90 | File type: PDF | 252 pages

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||14 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Beginning a Cognative Approach to Ritual|By Grant H. Potts|McCauley and Lawson have big ambitions. Faced with a tradition of interpretation and study which focuses on primarily hermeneutic analysis of specific ritual traditions or social models, they want to instantiate a study of religion and ritual that anchors itself in the cognitive sciences. Although they are probably| |'Bringing Ritual to Mind makes a substantial contribution to one corner of the cognitive field, the cognitive basis of ritual forms. The book extends and clarifies aspects of the theory of ritual competence presented in the authors' Rethinking Religion (1990).

This study explores the psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. In practice, participants recall rituals to ensure a sense of continuity across performances, and those rituals motivate them to transmit and re-perform them. Most religious rituals exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation to enhance their recollection. Robert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson assert that participants' cognitive representations of ritual ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms   |  Robert N. McCauley, E. Thomas Lawson. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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