TY - BOOK ID - 5328394 TI - Bringing ritual to mind AU - McCauley, Robert N AU - Lawson, E Thomas PY - 2002 SN - 0521815592 0521016290 0511020767 1280434236 0511177739 0511148135 0511045794 0511305176 0511606419 1107134099 9780511020766 9780511177736 9780511606410 9780511045790 9780511148132 9781280434235 9786610434237 6610434239 9780521815598 9780521016292 9781107134096 9780511305177 PB - Cambridge, UK New York Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Ritual KW - Psychology, Religious. KW - Cognition and culture. KW - Rituel KW - Psychologie religieuse KW - Cognition et culture KW - Psychology. KW - Aspect psychologique KW - Ritual. KW - Psychology, Religious KW - Cognition and culture KW - Religion KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Religion - General KW - Psychology KW - #SBIB:39A10 KW - Antropologie: religie, riten, magie, hekserij KW - Culture and cognition KW - Psychology of religion KW - Religions KW - Religious psychology KW - Cult KW - Cultus KW - Psychological aspects KW - Liturgies KW - Public worship KW - Symbolism KW - Worship KW - Rites and ceremonies KW - Ritualism KW - Psychology and religion KW - Cognition KW - Culture KW - Ethnophilosophy KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Socialization KW - Social Sciences KW - Anthropology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5328394 AB - 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. ER -