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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.

Ritual --- Psychology, Religious. --- Cognition and culture. --- Rituel --- Psychologie religieuse --- Cognition et culture --- Psychology. --- Aspect psychologique --- Ritual. --- Psychology, Religious --- Cognition and culture --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- Psychology --- #SBIB:39A10 --- Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij --- Culture and cognition --- Psychology of religion --- Religions --- Religious psychology --- Cult --- Cultus --- Psychological aspects --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Psychology and religion --- Cognition --- Culture --- Ethnophilosophy --- Ethnopsychology --- Socialization --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology

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In the Eighth Edition of this classic text on the financial history of bubbles and crashes, Robert McCauley joins with Robert Aliber in building on Charles Kindleberger's renowned work. McCauley draws on his central banking experience to introduce new chapters on cryptocurrency and the United States as the 21st Century global lender of last resort. He also updates the book's coverage of the recent property bubble in China, as well as providing new perspectives on the US housing bubble of 2003-2006, and the Japanese bubble of the late 1980s. And he gives new attention to the social psychology that leads people to take the risk of investing in Ponzi schemes and asset price bubbles. For the first time in this revised and updated edition, figures highlight key points to ensure that today’s generation of finance and economic researchers, students, practitioners and policy-makers—as well as investors looking to avoid crashes—have access to this panoramic history of financial crisis.

Banks and banking. --- Depressions --- Economic history. --- Finance --- History.