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Harvey Whitehouse is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen's University Belfast. Robert N. McCauley is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University in Atlanta. He is the author, with E. Thomas Lawson, of Rethinking Religion: Connecting Cognition and Culture (1990) and Bringing Ritual to Mind: Psychological Foundations of Cultural Forms (2002).
1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Theoretical Context 3 A Reductionistic Model of Distinct Modes of Religious Transmission 4 Modes Theory: Some Theoretical Considerations 5 Ritual Form and Ritual Frequency 6 Divergent Religion: A Dual-Process Model of Religious Thought, Behavior, and Structure 7 Rethinking Naturalness: Modes of Religiosity and Religion in the Round
Chapter 8 Testing the Modes Theory 9 In the Empirical Mode: Evidence Needed for the Modes of Religiosity 10 Memory and Analogical Thinking in High-Arousal Rituals
Chapter 11 Wider Applications 12 The Modes Theory Helps Explain Conversion Phenomena 13 Charisma, Tradition and Ritual: A Cognitive Approach to Magical Agency 14 Why Religions Develop Free Will Problems 15 The Cognitive Foundations of Religiosity
This book provides an excellent set of commentaries, and for those interested in cognitive approaches to religion more generally, it offers a good overview.....
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