Ritual, community, and conflict
Reflections on the science of the social and its practical implications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16908994 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Whitehouse (0000-0001-6935-6724, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 330-340 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Brain & Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2153-5981 • E-ISSN: 2153-599X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2153599x.2023.2186940 |
| OpenAlex | W4381853687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 46 |
The Ritual Animalsummarizes the results of over three decades of research on the role of rituals increating cohesion and cooperation within communities and driving conflicts between them. Theprocess has involved various theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges and advances,discussed in this book review forum from a variety of novel angles. Contributors span a broadrange of disciplines, including cognitive and evolutionary anthropology (Atran, Burdett, Lanman,Stanford), history (Larson, Martin), philosophy (McCauley), religious studies (Wood) and compu-ter science (Lane). The range of topics covered by the reviews is similarly broad, addressing many ofthe core questions raised by the book, relating to the nature of ritual, the theory of divergent modes,and the role of ritual in cultural evolution. The reviews also engage with the book’s vision for a newscience of the social and its potential role in tackling practical problems facing humanity today. Thereviewers are generous in their appraisals of the book but also present constructive criticisms andsuggestions for improvements. My response is structured aroundfive main headings, as summar-ized in the following table for ease of reference. In order to provide sufficient background infor-mation for readers unfamiliar with the contents ofThe Ritual Animal, I have prefaced eachsection with a one-paragraph summary of key points from the book to which the reviews discussedin that section are addressed
Conflict of interest · Political science · Social conflict · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Cultural Differences and Values · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Law · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
The Archetypal Actions Of Ritual
Brazil's football warriors
Task-specific effects of ostracism on imitative fidelity in early childhood
Brothers in arms
Why ritualized behavior? Precaution Systems and action parsing in developmental, pathological and cultural rituals
Dying for the group
The hidden structure of overimitation
The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences
An Introduction to Seshat
Ritual Animals also Require Pedagogy, Communication, and Social Reasoning
The Coexistence Problem in Psychology, Anthropology, and Evolutionary Theory
The Ritual Animal
Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution
Fusion and Reform
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data
Material Correlates Analysis (MCA)
Ritual, fusion, and conflict
Who owns 'culture'?1
Keeping Together in Time
The Interpretation of Cultures
What makes a group worth dying for? Identity fusion fosters perception of familial ties, promoting self-sacrifice
The role for simulations in theory construction for the social sciences
The cultural morphospace of ritual form
Religion and morality
A Systematic Assessment of "Axial Age" Proposals Using Global Comparative Historical Evidence
Symbols, Song, Dance and Features of Articulation Is religion an extreme form of traditional authority
Arguments and Icons
Inside the Cult
Cultural Rituals and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
The Ties That Bind Us
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |