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Multicultural religious and spiritual rituals: Meaning and praxis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2007

Joan H. Hageman
Joan H. Hageman*
Affiliation:
PsyMore Research Institute, Inc., Tampa, FL 33694
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Abstract:

This commentary argues against the theory that cultural ritual behavior is meaningless or that ritual action is solely a by-product of fear-based precautionary and action-parsing systems. Humans demonstrate the ability to spontaneously change their use of proximate intentions and attribute ultimate intentions to ritual actions that are not dependent upon fear or physical and emotional/mental dysfunction.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , December 2006 , pp. 619 - 620
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2007

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