LEADER 03514nam 22006732 450 001 9910455987703321 005 20151005020624.0 010 $a1-107-13409-9 010 $a1-280-43423-6 010 $a0-511-17773-9 010 $a0-521-81559-2 010 $a0-511-14813-5 010 $a0-511-04579-4 010 $a0-511-30517-6 010 $a0-511-60641-9 035 $a(CKB)111082128285946 035 $a(EBL)202186 035 $a(OCoLC)475917124 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000114859 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11129100 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000114859 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10125964 035 $a(PQKB)11428760 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511606410 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC202186 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL202186 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10021411 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL43423 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111082128285946 100 $a20090910d2002|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBringing ritual to mind $epsychological foundations of cultural forms /$fRobert N. McCauley and E. Thomas Lawson$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2002. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 236 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-01629-0 311 $a0-511-02076-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-227) and index. 327 $aCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Preface; 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; Notes; References; Index 330 $aBringing 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. 606 $aRitual$xPsychology 606 $aPsychology, Religious 606 $aCognition and culture 615 0$aRitual$xPsychology. 615 0$aPsychology, Religious. 615 0$aCognition and culture. 676 $a291.3/8/019 700 $aMcCauley$b Robert N.$0549836 702 $aLawson$b E. Thomas 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455987703321 996 $aBringing ritual to mind$91905617 997 $aUNINA