Evoked culture, ritualization and religious rituals

Liénard, Pierre; Lawson, E. Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.religion.2008.01.004

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“…The longer duration of idiosyncratic unnecessary acts in “hazardous” trials is in accordance with the working hypothesis of the present study. As noted in the Introduction, such an increase is a salient feature of ritualized behavior, a product of activated brain precaution mechanisms [ 8 , 12 , 13 , 19 , 23 , 32 , 33 , 34 ]. Specifically, the notion that performing ritualized activities in response to real or illusionary threat as a means to alleviate anxiety has been introduced in several disciplines.…”

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The Impact of Precaution and Practice on the Performance of a Risky Motor Task

Keren

Boyer

Mort

et al. 2013

Behavioral Sciences

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The association between threat perception and motor execution, mediated by evolved precaution systems, often results in ritual-like behavior, including many idiosyncratic acts that seem irrelevant to the task at hand. This study tested the hypothesis that threat-detection during performance of a risky motor task would result in idiosyncratic activity that is not necessary for task completion. We asked biology students to follow a particular set of instructions in mixing three solutions labeled “bio-hazardous” and then repeat this operation with “non-hazardous” substances (or vice versa). We observed a longer duration of the overall performance, a greater repertoire of acts, longer maximal act duration, and longer mean duration of acts in the “risky” task when it was performed before the “non-risky” task. Some, but not all, of these differences were eliminated when a “non-risky” task preceded the “risky” one. The increased performance of idiosyncratic unnecessary activity is in accordance with the working hypothesis of the present study: ritualized idiosyncratic activities are performed in response to a real or illusionary threat, as a means to alleviate anxiety.

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The Impact of Precaution and Practice on the Performance of a Risky Motor Task

Keren

Boyer

Mort

et al. 2013

Behavioral Sciences

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“…Rather, collective rituals often serve for rigidly demarcate sacred and profane time and space (Eliade, 1959). Moreover, they share similar formal features: internal repetition and redundancy, "scriptedness", detachment from a pragmatic goal (Lienard and Lawson, 2008). Noteworthy, even when rituals are justified by mythological "explanations", they are inherently compelling, i.e.…”

Section: Anthropology Of Ritualsmentioning

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The biological origins of rituals: An interdisciplinary perspective

Tonna

Marchesi

Parmigiani

2019

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Ritual behavior is ubiquitous, marking animal motor patterns, normal and psychopathological behavior in human individuals as well as every human culture. Moreover, formal features of rituals appear to be highly conserved along phylogeny and characterized by a circular and spatio-temporal structure typical of habitual behavior with internal repetition of non-functional acts and redirection of attention to the "script" of the performance. A continuity, based on highly conserved cortico-striatal loops, can be traced from animal rituals to human individual and collective rituals with psychopathological compulsions at the crossing point. The transition from "routinization" to "ritualization" may have been promoted to deal with environmental unpredictability in non-social contexts and, through motor synchronization, to enhance intra-group cohesion and communication in social contexts.Ultimately, ritual, following its biological constraints exerts a "homeostatic" function on the environment (social and non-social) under conditions of unpredictability.

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“…The nature of name is magical due to the name itself becoming mythical/magical word through which entity is completely submerged in another [9]. The human being takes in the world being in a ritualized symbolic action [14,18,25]. Therefore, fairly represent the view that "Several rituals were invented to prevent more misery, and certain experts thereby gained considerable importance.…”

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Configurations of reading as a constitutive aspect of consciousness

Shutaleva¹,

Putilova²

2016

Ros Hum J

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The article is devoted to analysis of the constitutive aspect of consciousness that manifests in the eventfulness of mind and the reality constituted by it, presented as a textual reality. Appeal to the understanding of space and text makes it possible to view the reading space as a metaphorical "twofold" space, which is constituted by intersection and superposition of "places" that, in their state of becoming, suggest the perception of reality that is set by the possibility of infinite textual interpretations. The authors examine whether it is conceivable that there be evoking configurations of reading allows to represent the problem of consciousness in the context of finding something that ontologically roots consciousness in the world, suggests its constitutive, subjectivity-forming aspect that manifests in the eventfulness of consciousness and the reality constituted by it. Invoking mystical tradition allows us to consider text as a "place" with singular internal tension line where coexistence produces not an abstract, but individual and qualitatively diverse space. In the mystical tradition Beeng questioning as that which exists before things and is their foundation but is not something partial to existence. In this regard, the text defined as a reality, which implies concealment and remains something intimate, impossible to control completely. In connection with this symbol is seen not only as a linguistic phenomenon. Configurations of reading are considered an entity where can be foundation, creation and procreation of meanings and interpretations.

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Evoked culture, ritualization and religious rituals

Cited by 28 publications

References 8 publications

The Impact of Precaution and Practice on the Performance of a Risky Motor Task

The Impact of Precaution and Practice on the Performance of a Risky Motor Task

The biological origins of rituals: An interdisciplinary perspective

Configurations of reading as a constitutive aspect of consciousness

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