Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms

Robert N. McCauley; E. Thomas Lawson

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511606410

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Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms

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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

List of figures
pp viii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xiv

1 - Cognitive constraints on religious ritual form: a theory of participants' competence with religious ritual systems
pp 1-37

2 - Ritual and memory: frequency and flashbulbs
pp 38-88

3 - Two hypotheses concerning religious ritual and emotional stimulation
pp 89-123

4 - Assessing the two hypotheses
pp 124-178

5 - General profiles of religious ritual systems: the emerging cognitive science of religion
pp 179-212

Notes
pp 213-220

References
pp 221-227

Index
pp 228-236

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