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Can ritual form be predicted from religious belief? A test of the Lawson-McCauley hypotheses
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Can ritual form be predicted from knowledge of religious beliefs? E. Thomas Lawson and Robert N. McCauley (Lawson & McCauley 1990; McCauley & Lawson 2002) have proposed a cognitive theory of religious ritual according to which the way in which superhuman agents are implicated in the ritual's action structure has consequences for the repeatability, reversibility, and relative sensory pageantry of the ritual in a religious system. We tested their predictions by systematic interviews of ...
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- Dr. Stewart and Prof. Strathern, co-editors, Journal of Ritual Studies
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- Journal of Ritual Studies More from this journal
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 1-14
- Publication date:
- 2003-01-01
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0890-1112
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- English
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- Citation: Malley, B. & Barrett, J. (2003). 'Can ritual form be predicted from religious belief? A test of the Lawson-McCauley hypotheses', Journal of Ritual Studies, 17(2), 1-14. This article from the "Journal of Ritual Studies" is reprinted here with permission from the Journal's Editors, Dr. Pamela J. Stewart and Prof. Andrew Strathern. N.B. Dr Barrett is now based at the School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford.
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