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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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An entertaining summary of the broad reshaping of U.S. corporate finance in the last decade and a half.The late 1980s saw a huge wave of corporate leveraging. The U.S. financial landscape was dominated by a series of high-stakes leveraged buyouts as firms replaced their equity with new fixed debt obligations. Cash-financed acquisitions and defensive share repurchases also decapitalized corporations. This trend culminated in the sensational debt-financed bidding for RJR-Nabisco, the largest leveraged buyout of all time, before dramatically reversing itself in the early 1990s with a rapid return to equity.This entertaining summary of the broad reshaping of U.S. corporate finance in the last decade and a half looks at three major issues: why corporations leveraged up in the first place, why and how the leverage wave came to an end, and what policy lessons are to be drawn.Using the Minsky-Kindleberger model as a framework, the authors interpret the rise and fall of leveraging as a financial market mania. In the course of chronicling the return to equity in the 1990s, they address a number of important corporate finance questions: How important was the return to equity in relieving corporations' debt burdens? How did the return to equity affect the ability of young high-tech firms to finance themselves without selling out to foreign firms?

Leveraged buyouts --- Consolidation and merger of corporations --- Corporations --- History --- Finance --- Business corporations --- C corporations --- Corporations, Business --- Corporations, Public --- Limited companies --- Publicly held corporations --- Publicly traded corporations --- Public limited companies --- Stock corporations --- Subchapter C corporations --- Acquisition of corporations --- Acquisitions and mergers --- Amalgamation of corporations --- Business combinations --- Business mergers --- Buyouts, Corporate --- Corporate acquisitions --- Corporate buyouts --- Corporate mergers --- Corporate takeovers --- Fusion of corporations --- Hostile takeovers of corporations --- M & A (Mergers and acquisitions of corporations) --- Merger of corporations --- Mergers and acquisitions of corporations --- Mergers, Corporate --- Takeovers, Corporate --- Buyouts, Leveraged --- LBOs (Corporations) --- Leveraged buy-outs --- Consolidation --- Mergers --- Business enterprises --- Corporate power --- Disincorporation --- Stocks --- Trusts, Industrial --- Corporate reorganizations --- Golden parachutes (Executive compensation) --- Industrial concentration --- ECONOMICS/Finance

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Religious studies --- Sociology of religion