KAŠE, Vojtěch. Modelling Ritual Dynamics against the Data: Early Christian Meal Practices as a Test Case. In XXI IAHR World Congress 2015 in Erfurt, August 23-29 PANEL: Modeling and Simulating Past Minds and Networks: Dynamics of Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Graeco-Roman World. 2015.
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Original name Modelling Ritual Dynamics against the Data: Early Christian Meal Practices as a Test Case
Authors KAŠE, Vojtěch (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition XXI IAHR World Congress 2015 in Erfurt, August 23-29 PANEL: Modeling and Simulating Past Minds and Networks: Dynamics of Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Graeco-Roman World, 2015.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Country of publisher Germany
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/15:00089152
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords (in Czech) kognitivní teorie rituálu; počátky eucharistie; výpočetní modelování
Keywords in English cognitive ritual theories; eucharistic origins; computational modeling of history
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Vendula Hromádková, učo 108933. Changed: 27/3/2017 12:16.
Abstract
Any invention, modification and selection of a ritual practice in a group and its stabilization over time or transmission of it from one group to another depends on a lot of factors. Method of agent-based modelling enables to consider relative influence of them in an explicit way and to “re-grow” particular processes of interest in an artificial computational environment. Despite of its artificialness, a comparison of simulation results with real world data can help to demonstrate probability of some suggested historical trajectories and, in that respect, to test particular hypotheses. Drawing on recent experimental evidence concerning intuitive evaluation of ritual efficacy, this paper takes into consideration relative influence of the so called cognitive attraction of a ritual behavior. One agent-based simulation is discussed and compared to the data derived from literary sources concerning early Christian meal practices in the first four centuries CE.
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MUNI/M/1867/2014, interní kód MUName: Generativní historiografie antického Středomoří: Modelování a simulace dynamiky šíření náboženských představ a forem chování (Acronym: GEHIR)
Investor: Masaryk University, INTERDISCIPLINARY - Interdisciplinary research projects
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