KAŠE, Vojtěch. Ritual, Extended Mind, and Overimitation: Towards a Naturalistic Cognitive Theory of Ritual Transmission. In Religion, Migration and Mutation, 2013. 2013.
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Original name Ritual, Extended Mind, and Overimitation: Towards a Naturalistic Cognitive Theory of Ritual Transmission
Name (in English) Ritual, Extended Mind, and Overimitation: Towards a Naturalistic Cognitive Theory of Ritual Transmission
Authors KAŠE, Vojtěch (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Religion, Migration and Mutation, 2013, 2013.
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Original language Czech
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/13:00069311
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech) rituál;ritualizované chování;imitace;nadimitace;přenos;kognitivní věda o náboženství;kognitivní historiografie
Keywords in English ritual;ritualized behavior;imitation;overimitation;transmission;cognitive science of religion;cognitive historiography
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Vojtěch Kaše, Ph.D., učo 342564. Changed: 17/9/2013 09:15.
Abstract
This paper will concentrate on cognitive theories of ritual and models of its transmission in the cultural evolutionary framework. It will be argued that this type of theorizing is important for explaining historical mutations of rituals in particular populations. The prevalent orientation in the so called standard model of the cognitive science of religion on mental representations of ritual instead of on ritual behavior itself will be discussed and criticized with reference to recent development in the cognitive sciences. Then, it will be argued for the usefulness of the theory of overimitation for modeling ritual transmission in a cultural evolutionary perspective with a final illustration of the complementarity of this theory with approaches characterizing cognition as embodied and extended.
Abstract (in English)
This paper will concentrate on cognitive theories of ritual and models of its transmission in the cultural evolutionary framework. It will be argued that this type of theorizing is important for explaining historical mutations of rituals in particular populations. The prevalent orientation in the so called standard model of the cognitive science of religion on mental representations of ritual instead of on ritual behavior itself will be discussed and criticized with reference to recent development in the cognitive sciences. Then, it will be argued for the usefulness of the theory of overimitation for modeling ritual transmission in a cultural evolutionary perspective with a final illustration of the complementarity of this theory with approaches characterizing cognition as embodied and extended.
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