Ritual Animals also Require Pedagogy, Communication, and Social Reasoning
Harvey Whitehouse offers a complex and stimulating theory of rituals that bind people together and propagate via affiliative imitation. The Ritual Animal argues that fundamental problems of group cooperation can be solved by causally opaque and goal-demoted behaviors which produce arbitrary cultural...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publ.
2022
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Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 153-170 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Ritual
/ Ritual
/ Culture mediation
/ Social learning
/ Immitation
/ Group psychology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
B Pedagogy B Coordination B Coalitions B Reasoning B Cultural Transmission B Epistemic Vigilance B Signalling B Epistemic Deference B Communication B Costly Signalling |
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