Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission

By Michael A. Winkelman. 2006

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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When Terror Hits Home: Identity Fused Americans Who Saw Boston Bombing Victims as “Family” Provided Aid (2015, background): “…past psychological perspectives on groups that emphasized strong but relatively impersonal bonds to the group category (e.g., Tajfel & Turner, 1979; Turner et al., 1987) with anthropological perspectives that emphasized relational bonds amongst members in small groups (e.g., Whitehouse, 2004).”
Ritual increases children’s affiliation with in-group members☆ (2016, background): “This is most commonly associated with the imagistic mode (low-frequency, high arousal) of religiosity (Whitehouse, 2004).”
The cultural morphospace of ritual form ☆: Examining modes of religiosity cross-culturally (2011, background): “Pilot experiments also indicate that even low-arousal one-off rituals produce some reflexivity (albeit lower than for higharousal variants), but that this effect disappears when rituals are repeated over a period of time (Whitehouse, 2004, pp. 83–84).”
When group membership gets personal: a theory of identity fusion. (2012, background): “Such “imagistic” rituals (Atkinson & Whitehouse, 2011; Whitehouse, 1995, 2000, 2004) are typically emotionally intense events that are experienced rarely (only once in a lifetime in some cases).”
Fear of Death and Supernatural Beliefs: Developing A New Supernatural Belief Scale to Test the Relationship (2013, background): “Although CSR as a field examines a variety of ‘religious’ phenomena, researchers have particular interest in the evidently pan-cultural belief in supernatural agents and entities (Boyer, 2001; Pyysiäinen, 2009).”
The science of religious beliefs (2008, background): “Cultural scaffolding, popular religion, and theological incorrectness Harvey Whitehouse’s Modes of Religiosity theory is the most developed account of factors that stretch the tethers of cultural expression away from their maturationally natural cognitive anchors (Whitehouse, 1995, 2000, 2004).”
The Evolution of Religion: How Cognitive By-Products, Adaptive Learning Heuristics, Ritual Displays, and Group Competition Generate Deep Commitments to Prosocial Religions (2010, background): “The issue then becomes:155 how and why does purpose-seeking and cause-inferring so often deliver supernatural agents?”