Bringing Ritual to Mind: - Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the psychological foundations of religious ritual systems. Zusammenfassung Bringing Ritual to Mind explores the psychological foundations of religious rituals. Religious rituals exploit either high performance frequency or extraordinary emotional stimulation (but not both) to enhance recollection. McCauley and Lawson use a wide range of evidence to argue that the explanation lies in participants' cognitive representations of ritual form. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Cognitive constraints on religious ritual form: a theory of participants' competence with religious ritual systems; 2. Ritual and memory: frequency and flashbulbs; 3. Two hypotheses concerning religious ritual and emotional stimulation; 4. Assessing the two hypotheses; 5. General profiles of religious ritual systems: the emerging cognitive science of religion.

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• Authors: E. Thomas Lawson, E. Thomas (Western Michigan University) Lawson, T. E. Lawson, R.N. McCauley, Robert N. Mccauley, Robert N. (Emory University Mccauley
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521016292
• ISBN: 978-0-521-01629-2
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 227 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine