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The cultural morphospace of ritual form: examining modes of religiosity cross-culturally
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Ethnographic, historical, archaeological and experimental work suggests the existence of two basic clusters of ritual dynamics or 'modes of religiosity' - a low-frequency, high-arousal cluster linked to the formation of small cohesive communities (imaginistic mode) and high-frequency, low-arousal cluster associated with larger, more centralized social morphology (doctrinal mode). Currently, however, we lack a large-scale survey of ritual variation on which to test such predictions. Here, we c...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Evolution and Human Behavior Journal website
- Volume:
- 32
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 50-62
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1090-5138
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- Language:
- English
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- ora:5383
- Deposit date:
- 2011-05-26
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- Elsevier Inc
- Copyright date:
- 2011
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